Journalists deadly targets in Syria

Journalists have become targets during the revolt in Syria against the regime of Bashar al-Assad. Agence France-Presse and Paris-based media watchdog Reporters Without Borders put the total at 23 since March 2011.

American Marie Colvin, 56, working for the Sunday Times, was killed by Syrian Army mortar.  

An additional 60 “citizen journalists” have been killed. Click on http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/130502/journalists-who-have-died-syria-war

to see the list.

Among those listed as missing are Agence France-Presse and GlobalPost freelance journalist James Foley and McClatchy and Washington Post freelancer Austin Tice.

Click on http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/212510/james-foley-likely-being-held-with-one-or-more-western-journalists-in-syria/

to read the entire article on Foley and Tice.