‘Journalist Genocide’ — My Latest Hot Type Column in Byline
For this week’s Hot Type column in Byline, I document the mass killing of journalists in Gaza and other parts of the world in what can only be described as genocide
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“The killing of journalists in the Gaza war is its own genocide. According to the Costs of War Project, it marks the single deadliest conflict for journalists in world history. By mid-August, Israel had killed up to 274 journalists, with 269 of them Palestinian, according to aggregate data from the Committee to Protect Journalists and the International Federation of Journalists. The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs puts this staggering number in perspective: since the war in Gaza began on Putin’s birthday in 2023, more journalists have been killed than the combined total during the US Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War — including related conflicts in Cambodia and Laos — the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s and early 2000s, and the war in Afghanistan, post-9/11.
“If we look further over the waves to Russia, Georgia, Belarus, and Ukraine, we can see that journalists remain under siege… The list of journalists who have been murdered in Russia since the early ‘90s appears endless. When award-winning investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya was assassinated in Moscow on Putin’s birthday in 2006 — after surviving a poisoning and imprisonment — maybe because the world looked on and did nothing, we are where we are today. A stealth genocide of reporters is occurring and the world navel gazes. And then there’s America, where press freedom continues receding — falling to historic lows — while Russian-paid propagandists litter the White House press pool.”—Heidi Siegmund Cuda, Excerpted from Hot Type: Journalist Genocide, Byline Supplement, August 30, 2025
In my weekly Hot Type column for Byline Supplement, the magazine edition of Byline Times, I followed up on an interview I did with a woman in Gaza, who informed the Bette community about the mass murder of reporters — the deadliest war for journalists in history.
While America’s Russian assets want you to care about a stupid logo, a genocide within a genocide is occurring, and I think that’s more important.
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