This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and the New Yorker.

This is the New Yorker Radio Hour. Right now, the Gaza Strip is the deadliest place in the world for journalists.

At least 76 Palestinian journalists and media workers have been killed since Israel's air and ground campaign began.

And there's a real question whether some have been targeted deliberately because of their work.

That's very much up in the air.

Israel has also jailed 19 journalists since the war began.

The safety of the press is not just an issue in the Middle East, and it's not just an issue

in wartime.

Around the world, the old rules that respected the freedom of journalists to operate,

at least in theory, you're seeing more and more those rules being simply ignored, even here in the United States.

I spoke the other day with the CEO of the Committee to Protect Journalists, Jody Ginsburg.

She was formerly the Reuters Bureau Chief for the UK and Ireland.

And I know Jody pretty well because in the interest of transparency, I serve on the board of

CPJ and I care very deeply about this work.

As long as I've been involved with CPJ, every year seems to be worse,

particularly the last several years. What are the trends that are making it more and

more dangerous to be a journalist?

What we've seen over the past few years is a decline in democracy and democratic norms and values

worldwide which means journalists are now at risk in places where

traditionally they've been relatively safe.

So for example we've seen here in the US leaders including Donald Trump's mere journalist

as enemies of the people, fake news, that unleashes online

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