In horrific year for journalists, some of most courageous honored for their work

It has been a horrific year for journalists.

As long as reporters have done their work, people have tried to stop them from doing it; but the dangers of the profession have been especially apparent this year.

In Iraq and Syria, the Muslim extremist group ISIS has captured and executed journalists in horrific fashion, starting with the beheading of James Foley.

The Committee to Protect Journalists says that 42 journalists have been killed this year alone; last year, 211 were jailed.

Every year, that same organization puts a spotlight on those who, as the Czech leader Vaclav Havel said, strive for “living in truth.”

CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, who hosted this year’s awards ceremony on Tuesday, spoke this week with two of the honorees – Mikhail Zygar, a Russian journalist struggling to keep the country’s only intendant TV news station on the air, and Siamak Ghaderi, who served four years in an Iranian prison and received 60 lashes for his work.

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