UNESCO Says One Journalist Dead Every 4.5 days

On Wednesday, UNESCO announced a disturbing report about journalist killings statistics. According to the institution, one journalist is killed every four and a half days. 39 members of the Intergovernmental Council of UNESCO requested the report. In which Syria tops the list as the worst country for a journalist killed in the line of duty.

According to the report from the Director-General, 827 journalists died while on the job within the past 10 years. The report said, “The extent of the risks faced by journalists is demonstrated by the 827 killings recorded by UNESCO over the course of ten years,”

Worst Countries

In the Safety of Journalists and the Danger of Impunity report, the worst countries belong to the Arab Nations. Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Libya, the four countries with the highest journalist fatalities top the list. Latin America followed next as the worst affected nation.

The report indicates that in the last two years of 2006 to 2015, 59% of the deaths occurred in conflicted zones. Throughout those years, 78 out of the 213 correspondents killed in the Arab Nation. It’s a staggering 36.5% ratio of the journalist casualties.

The most shocking surge of journalist slayings occurred in Western Europe and North America. In 2014, no journalist died in the line of duty, the number drastically increased to 11 journalists killed in 2015.

Local Journalist more vulnerable

The report also revealed that local journalists are more vulnerable to danger than foreign correspondent, amounting to 90% of the fatalities. However, a huge spike of deaths recorded for foreign correspondents in 2014. On the same year, 17 journalists killed compare to an average of 4 correspondents in the past years.

Online Journalist

Similarly, online journalist falls victims to the killings. A huge increase in fatalities with a total count of 21 from 2 in 2014, Syrian bloggers reckoned half of them.

Men vs Women

The UNESCO report also uncovered that men were 10 times more susceptible to killings than women. A total of 195 to 18 deaths recorded from 2014 up to 2015. TV journalists serve main targets than the print journalists.

Findings of the report indicated that death is not the only danger journalist have to face.

The report stated for the world to understand, “To this, one needs to add the countless other violations endured by journalists, which include kidnappings, arbitrary detention, torture, intimidation, and harassment, both offline and online, and seizure or destruction of material.”

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Report Says Seventy-five Percent of Internet Usage in 2017 Will Be Mobile

According to media buying agency Zenith forecast this week, seventy-five percent of internet usage in 2017 will be mobile. The number is up slightly from this year. This is due to an increasing number of consumers around the world that access the web on tablets and smartphones.

Zenith earlier projected that 71 percent of internet consumption would be mobile in 2016. It released its “Mobile Advertising Forecasts” report on Thursday. The report said 60 percent of global internet advertising money in 2018 will come from mobile advertising.

In 2018, mobile advertising spending will total $134 billion. This “is more than what will be spent on magazine, newspaper, outdoor and cinema advertising put together,” it said.

Zenith is a unit of French ad agency Publicis Groupe SA. The media agency had projected global mobile advertising expenditure to be $71 billion in 2016.

Brands are rushing to Facebook, Google and Snapchat where they can market to viewers. This is because more ad money shifts to the digital realm from television.

“In four years, you’ve gone from 40 percent to 70 percent (of total internet usage) in mobile,” said Scott Singer, a digital media executive and managing director of innovation consultancy firm DDG Inc.

Major shift of advertising to mobile

This trend is leading a shift in ad spending to mobile and fueling deals in the media, communications and entertainment businesses, he added.

The escalation of mobile data consumption, including video, is forcing telecommunications companies to merge content and digital distribution. They are waging that they can entice viewers to online video and other content that are transmitted over their internet and wireless networks. Furthermore, they can draw advertisers to grow ad revenue.

AT&T Inc said on Saturday it intends to buy media company Time Warner Inc for $85.4 billion to expand into content distribution. Verizon Communications Inc has offered to acquire internet company Yahoo Inc.

Both companies plan to leverage user data to assist marketers in delivering targeted ads.

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