EDITORIAL: Killing the messenger

The statistics globally are chilling. And the Asia-Pacific region bears the brunt of the killing of journalists with impunity disproportionately. Revelations in research published in this edition of Pacific Journalism Review on the trauma experienced by television journalists in the Philippines cov...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:b82b9f800f3f4fe8aee48326a0883e5f2021-12-02T08:26:27ZEDITORIAL: Killing the messenger10.24135/pjr.v24i2.4641023-94992324-2035https://doaj.org/article/b82b9f800f3f4fe8aee48326a0883e5f2018-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-journalism-review/article/view/464https://doaj.org/toc/1023-9499https://doaj.org/toc/2324-2035 The statistics globally are chilling. And the Asia-Pacific region bears the brunt of the killing of journalists with impunity disproportionately. Revelations in research published in this edition of Pacific Journalism Review on the trauma experienced by television journalists in the Philippines covering President Rodrigo Duterte’s so-called ‘war on drugs’, or as many describe it, a ‘war on poverty’, with more that 12,000 dead is deeply disturbing (Amnesty International, 2017). While these deaths, allegedly mostly extrajudicial killings, do not relate directly to the murders of journalists, the highest death toll ever of journalists in a mass execution took place in the southern Philippines almost nine years ago. David RobieAsia Pacific NetworkarticleAsia-Pacificeditorialimpunitykilling of journalistsmedia freedompress freedomCommunication. Mass mediaP87-96Journalism. The periodical press, etc.PN4699-5650ENPacific Journalism Review, Vol 24, Iss 2 (2018)
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topic Asia-Pacific
editorial
impunity
killing of journalists
media freedom
press freedom
Communication. Mass media
P87-96
Journalism. The periodical press, etc.
PN4699-5650
spellingShingle Asia-Pacific
editorial
impunity
killing of journalists
media freedom
press freedom
Communication. Mass media
P87-96
Journalism. The periodical press, etc.
PN4699-5650
David Robie
EDITORIAL: Killing the messenger
description The statistics globally are chilling. And the Asia-Pacific region bears the brunt of the killing of journalists with impunity disproportionately. Revelations in research published in this edition of Pacific Journalism Review on the trauma experienced by television journalists in the Philippines covering President Rodrigo Duterte’s so-called ‘war on drugs’, or as many describe it, a ‘war on poverty’, with more that 12,000 dead is deeply disturbing (Amnesty International, 2017). While these deaths, allegedly mostly extrajudicial killings, do not relate directly to the murders of journalists, the highest death toll ever of journalists in a mass execution took place in the southern Philippines almost nine years ago.
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