Journalism is a Dangerous Game
Terrible:
The World Association of Newspapers today condemned the 'shocking murder' of , the Russian journalist. Ms Politkovskaya, a reporter for the Novaya Gazeta newspaper, was found dead Saturday afternoon from a bullet wound in the elevator of the building where she lived in Moscow.To make matters worse:
She was the 76th journalists killed world-wide in 2006, the most deadly year since WAN began keeping records of journalist murders in 1997.
According to BBC, Deputy Prosecutor Vyacheslav Rosinsky said that one theory was that the killing had been "linked to the victim's social or professional duties".
Her own newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, suggests on its front page that she was killed for her reporting on Chechnya.
