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Ecuadorian journalist Raúl Rodríguez Coronel was shot to death this morning in Guayaquil, according to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). CPJ is investigating all possible links between Rodríguez’s work as a journalist and his death. Rodríguez, news vice president and host of the daily news and opinion programme “Buenos Días Ecuador” (Good Morning Ecuador) on the Guayaquil...

Javier García, news anchor for the Caracas-based television station Radio Caracas Television Internacional (RCTV), was found dead in his Caracas apartment on Sunday. García, 37, was last seen by friends and family on Friday night, according to local and international news reports. On Sunday afternoon, García’s brother entered the anchor’s Caracas apartment and called the local fire department when...

Mohieddin Abdul Hameed al-Naqib, a news presenter for the local affiliate of state-run television station Al-Iraqiya TV, was gunned down by assailants in the Iraqi city of Mosul Tuesday. Al-Naqib, 49, was leaving his house outside Mosul on his way to work at around 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, when a car with two to three men inside drove by and fired at him, killing him instantly, Samir Sloka, the head...

A news presenter for the local affiliate of state-run television station Al-Iraqiya TV was gunned down by assailants in the Iraqi city of Mosul on Tuesday. Mohieddin Abdul Hameed al-Naqib, 49, was leaving his house outside Mosul on his way to work at around 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, when a car with two to three men inside drove by and opened fire at him, killing him instantly, Samir Sloka, the head of...

Iraqi journalist Mohiddin Abdulhamid al-Nakib, gunned down Tuesday outside his home in the northern city of Mosul, 370 km north of Baghdad, according to the Paris-based Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). His death brings to 216 the number of media workers killed in Iraq since the start of the war in March 2003, 12 per cent of whom have died in Mosul, the country's second most dangerous city for...

An Afghan reporter working for the Pashtu service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has been killed in the southern province of Helmand, Afghan officials said on Sunday. The body of 25-year-old Abdol Samad Rohani, was found near the city of Lashkar Gah, capital of Helmand province in southern Afghanistan, one day after he was abducted. Rohani disappeared after his vehicle was stopped...

Suspected Islamist insurgents shot dead a leading local journalist working for the BBC in southern Somalia on Saturday. A Reuters witness said gunmen confronted Nasteh Dahir Farah outside his home in the port of Kismayu before shooting him in the chest and stomach. He died soon afterwards in hospital. A group of armed men fired several shots at Farah as he made his way home from work, Paris-based...

Unidentified gunmen killed Pierre Fould Gerges, vice president of the Caracas daily Reporte Diario de la Economía, on Monday following dozens of death threats against the paper’s senior administrative staff over the last year. The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said Tuesday that Venezuelan authorities must conduct a thorough investigation and determine whether Gerges’...

the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is deeply troubled by the death of award-winning photojournalist Trent Keegan, whose body was found on Wednesday in a ditch in Nairobi, Kenya. Police spokesman Eric Kiraithe told Agence France-Presse (AFP) that Keegan was found with head injuries in a drainage trench along a central highway. Police have opened an inquest. "This is a devastating loss for...

An award-winning New Zealand photo-journalist has been bashed to death and his body dumped in a drainage ditch in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi. Trent Keegan, in his early 30s, was based in the west of Ireland and had spent the past decade travelling around the world while developing his business, the Irish Independent newspaper reported. An internet site for freelance photographers said he had...