Corruption and Crime

2 December 2005

Reporting costs another journalist his life in the Philippines

Barely three days after the media lauded a rare conviction in the killing of a journalist, a reporter was shot dead Thursday night at a public market in the central Philippines, the 10th journalist to be killed this year, Reuters reported. George Benaojan, 27, was talking to a colleague at the public market in Talisay City on the central island of Cebu when a lone gunman shot him in the neck and...

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