Robert Mahoney

Robert Mahoney, deputy executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists talks about the winners of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize: journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov.

Since 1992 seven journalists have been killed in Syria, making it one of the most difficult countries to cover. Last Thursday, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Anthony Shadid died of an asthma attack. Then on Tuesday  tragedy hit three more journalists.  A local videographer, Rami al-Sayed, was killed covering a bombardment. Also, two Western journalists — U.S.-born Marie Colvin and French photojournalist Rémi Ochlik — died when their makeshift media center came under fire.

Robert Mahoney, deputy director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, discusses CPJ's annual report "Attacks on the Press 2011" and the deaths of two Western journalists yesterday.