Murder Leading Cause of Death for Iraq-Based Journalists and Media Workers

Also from Ed and Publisher and sadly, not at all surprising:

Dozens of media workers have lost their lives in explosions and crossfire in Iraq, but now murder has overtaken war as the leading killer, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said on Friday.

In the past 10 days alone, suspected insurgents have murdered three Iraqi journalists and one media support worker, the CPJ said, raising the death toll to 67 journalists and 24 media support workers killed since the war began on March 20, 2003.

"The killings offer a chilling snapshot into recent trends. Iraqis constitute nearly 80 percent of journalists and support staffers killed for their work in Iraq," CPJ said in a statement. "Overall, 60 percent of the journalists and support workers killed in Iraq were targeted for assassination."