Datawatch: killings of journalists at four-year high as Ukraine war takes toll

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A minimum of 67 journalists and media assist employees have been killed world wide final 12 months, the best quantity since 2018 in keeping with the Committee to Shield Journalists.

The struggle in Ukraine was a giant issue: 15 journalists have been killed within the nation, the best quantity among the many nations tracked by the committee.

Mexico recorded nearly as many killings as Ukraine: 13, the best quantity for a single 12 months within the Latin American nation, highlighting the risks concerned in reporting on subjects corresponding to corruption and gang violence.

In Haiti, which recorded the third largest variety of killings final 12 months, journalists protecting gang violence and civil unrest after the assassination of president Jovenel Moïse in 2021 “have confronted an alarming upsurge in violent assaults”, the committee stated.

Between 2000 and 2021, a complete of 1,689 journalists and media assist employees have been killed globally. The biggest variety of killings — 282 — have been in Iraq. Syria, the Philippines and Mexico additionally recorded many deaths.

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The worldwide artwork market final 12 months returned to pre-pandemic value ranges and among the greatest will increase have been recorded by up to date artworks created by ladies, in keeping with analysis by Artsy, an internet market for artwork.

The median value for an present work by a feminine artist elevated 663 per cent, from $48,000 for artwork offered between 2019 and 2021 to $738,000 in 2022. Work by male artists skilled a median value enhance of 332 per cent from $17,000 to $323,000.

Anna Weyant’s “Falling Women” offered for $1.6mn, up from its earlier sale value of $37,800 in 2021.

The biggest value enhance was logged by Rachel Jones’ “Splice Structure (7)” which offered for $1.2mn, up 6,157 per cent from its earlier sale value of $19,000 in 2021.

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The variety of fatalities per 100mn miles travelled within the US was 1.46 in 2020, down from 1.58 twenty years in the past.

Though that is considerably lower than it has been all through the previous century, fatalities have been up 12 months on 12 months to their highest stage since 2007.

In 1923, the primary 12 months in the data set collated by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the speed was greater than 21.

Nonetheless, the other is true in low-income international locations in keeping with separate knowledge from the World Financial institution. The mortality attributable to street site visitors accidents per 100,000 individuals has elevated over the previous decade from 27 to twenty-eight.

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Nearly one in 5 youngsters within the US say they use YouTube “nearly continually” and three-quarters use it each day in keeping with a current survey by the Pew Research Center.

TikTok can be well-liked with slightly below half saying they use it no less than a number of occasions a day.

A a lot smaller share use Fb and greater than two-thirds of teenagers stated they by no means used it. It is a shift from 2015 when Fb was probably the most used; on the time, 71 per cent stated they used the platform frequently.

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The variety of individuals dwelling in excessive poverty rose sharply in 2020, in keeping with World Financial institution projections — the primary enhance since 1998.

Globally, individuals in excessive poverty — outlined as an earnings under $2.15 a day in 2017 costs — rose 11 per cent to 719mn, the Financial institution estimated.

The rise was because of the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, as disruption to financial exercise slowed progress across the globe.

Earlier than that, the variety of individuals dwelling in excessive poverty had fallen from 1.86bn in 1998 to 648mn in 2019.

Till the pandemic struck, the lengthy decline had been forecast to proceed. But regardless of this, the world was not on target to attain the World Financial institution’s purpose of a worldwide poverty charge of three per cent by 2030.

The impact of the pandemic, in addition to meals value inflation because of the struggle in Ukraine, imply the intense poverty charge will likely be 6.8 per cent by 2030, equal to 574mn individuals, the financial institution forecasts.

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