{"id":18904,"date":"2026-02-26T06:42:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T06:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=18904"},"modified":"2026-02-26T06:42:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T06:42:57","slug":"2025-deadliest-year-on-record-for-journalists-says-committee-to-protect-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/02\/26\/2025-deadliest-year-on-record-for-journalists-says-committee-to-protect-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 deadliest year on record for journalists, says Committee to Protect Journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has said that 2025 was the deadliest year for journalists worldwide, with 129 reporters and media workers killed.<br>In a report released this week, CPJ said two-thirds of those killed in 2025 were allegedly killed by Israeli forces, marking the second consecutive year of record-high journalist fatalities.<br>According to the report, more than 60 percent of the 86 media workers who died as a result of Israeli fire in 2025 were Palestinians reporting from Gaza.<br>CPJ described the surge in deaths as unprecedented in more than three decades of record-keeping, attributing the trend to what it called the \u201congoing and unparalleled targeting\u201d of journalists and media workers by Israel.<br>The organization added that, beyond Gaza, Israel\u2019s military operations in Lebanon, Yemen, and Iran also resulted in journalist casualties.<br>After Gaza, Sudan, and Ukraine recorded some of the highest journalist death tolls in 2025, with nine and four fatalities respectively, largely due to ongoing conflicts.<br>The Committee to Protect Journalists is a U.S.-based global organization that advocates for the rights and safety of journalists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has said that 2025 was the deadliest year for journalists worldwide, with 129 reporters and media workers killed.In a report released this week, CPJ said two-thirds of those killed in 2025 were allegedly killed by Israeli forces, marking the second consecutive year of record-high journalist fatalities.According to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[85],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18906,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18904\/revisions\/18906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}