101 journalists killed across the globe in 2010

The number of journalists killed across the globe last year hit 101, the second highest figure since the 1990s, the International Press Institute (IPI) said Tuesday. The most dangerous region was Asia, with 40 journalists killed, 15 of them in Pakistan, the group said.
Thirty-two journalists were killed in the Americas, making it the second most dangerous continent. The IPI also said the number of countries where journalists were being killed had risen, "indicating that the threat to journalists is widening." Pakistan became the deadliest country with 15 deaths, followed by Mexico (12) and Honduras (10). Over the last five years 472 journalists have been killed across the world, most of them in Iraq and in the Philippines. In 2009, 32 journalists died in a massacre in the south-east Asian country as they accompanied a local election candidate in the Maguindanao province.