Media deaths 2011

The World Association of Newspaper and News Publishers
counts 29 media deaths so far this year.

These are the published results:

MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA: 13

Bahrain (1)
April 12
Karim Fakhrawi, founder and board member, Al-Wasat daily

Egypt (1)
February 4
Ahmad Mohamed Mahmoud, reporter, Al-Ta'awun

Iraq (4)
February 24
Mohamed al-Hamdani, correspondent, Al-Itijah TV

March 29
Sabah al-Bazi, correspondent, Al-Arabiya, CNN, Reuters

March 29
Muammar Khadir Abdelwahad, reporter, Al-Ayn news agency

June 21
Salem Alwan Al-Gharabi, cameraman, Afaq TV

Libya (5)
March 13
Ali Hassan al-Jaber, cameraman, Al-Jazeera

March 19
Mohamed Al-Nabbous, online TV broadcaster, Libya Al-Hurra TV

April 5
Anton Hammerl, photojournalist

April 20
Chris Hondros, freelance photojournalist

April 20
Tim Hetherington, freelance photojournalist

Tunisia (1)
January 17
Lucas Mebrouk Dolega, photographer, European Press Photo Agency (EPA)

Yemen (1)
March 18
Jamal al-Sharaabi, photojournalist, Al-Masdar weekly

AFRICA: 2

Democratic Republic of Congo (1)
June 21
Kambale Musonia, radio journalist, Radio Communautaire de Lubero Sud

Sierra Leone (1)
June 12
Ibrahim Foday, reporter, The Exclusive

AMERICAS: 5

Honduras (1)
May 11
Hector Francisco Medina Polanco, TV host, Omega Visión

Mexico (3)
March 25
Luis Emanual Ruiz Carrillo, photographer, La Prensa daily

June 1
Noel López Olguín, columnist, La Verdad de Jáltipan daily

June 20
Miguel Ángel López Velasco, deputy director, NOTIVER daily

Peru (1)
May 5
Julio Castillo Narváez, radio host, Radio Ollantay

ASIA: 9

India (2)
January 23
Umesh Rajput, reporter, Nai Duniya daily

June 11
Jyotirmoy Dey, investigative reporter, Mid-Day daily

Pakistan (5)
January 13
Wali Khan Babar, reporter, Geo TV

May 10
Nasrullah Afridi, journalist, Mashriq daily

May 31
Syed Saleem Shahzad, bureau chief, Asia Times Online

June 11
Asfandyar Abid Naveed, reporter, Akhbar-i-Khyber daily

June 11
Shafiullah Khan, trainee reporter, The News Peshawar Daily

Philippines (1)
January 24
Gerardo "Gerry" Ortega, radio host, DWAR Radio

Vietnam (1)
January 30
Hoang Hung, investigative journalist, Nguoi Lao Dong newspaper

LINK: http://www.wan-ifra.org/articles/2011/06/24/29-media-employees-killed-in-2011