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Journalism can be risky business. Around the world, media workers are often targets of violence simply for doing their jobs. In the last 10 years, the UN says, more than 600 journalists have been killed. In other words, one journalist a week loses his or her life for bringing information to the public. Above, in Myanmar, a journalist works on his laptop outside a courthouse (2012). Photo: AFP

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