According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, more than 250 journalists around the world were imprisoned in 2018.
Thirty four of those truth-seekers were murdered in retaliation for their reporting, Quartz reports.
Including journalists who were killed covering other dangerous stories and conflicts, 54 journalists lost their life.
Among them, 27-year-old editor Jan Kuciak and his fiance were shot dead in their home earlier this year. Kuciak had recently collaborated with OCCRP- the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project. His last published story focused on possible tax evasion within ‘Ndrangheta, an Italian crime syndicate.
Five journalists- Wendi Winters, John McNamara, Rob Hiassen, Gerald Fischman, and Rebecca Smith, were murdered by a grudge-holding gunman at the Capital Gazette, an Annapolis-based newspaper. Their deaths made the United States the fourth-deadliest country for journalist in world in 2018. The shooter had previously sued the paper over a column it published about his harassing a former classmate on Facebook.
Other headline-making news included the torture and murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the imprisonment of Rappler newsite CEO Maria Ressa in the Philippines.
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