56 killed in 2004 while reporting 

Fifty-six journalists around the world were killed in 2004 because
of their jobs - the deadliest 12 months for reporters in a decade,
the Committee to Protect Journalists reported yesterday. 

Thirty-six of these reporters were targeted for murder. 

The profession became more hazardous as government
intrusions on a free press increased in Russia and all the other
former Soviet republics except the three Baltic states, and 122
journalists - 42 of them in China, 23 in Cuba, 17 in Eritrea and
11 in Burma - were imprisoned for their reporting.
 
 Associated Press in Washington
 Tuesday March 15, 2005
 The Guardian 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1437777,00.html

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