JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - Photojournalists take cover as youths run amok during African National Congress youth leader Julius Malema's disciplinary hearing on August 30, 2011. (Photo: Daniel Born/ Courtesy of The Times)
GAZA CITY, GAZA STRIP - Palestinian schoolgirls join a rally held by Palestinian and BBC journalists in protest against the kidnapping of BBC journalist Alan Johnston, on March 20, 2007. (Photo 73640726 by Abid Katib/Courtesy of Getty Images)
JUAREZ, MEXICO - Members of the Mexican military police keep guard at the scene of the murder of two women aged 17 and 21, on March 24, 2010. (Photo 98021701 by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN - An injured Pakistani journalist is tended to by colleagues during violent clashes between police and protestors on September 29, 2007. (Photo 77106087 by John Moore/Courtesy of Getty Images)
LHASA, TIBET - A Tibetan worshiper looks at Chinese police officers patrolling in front of Potala Palace before the Beijing Olympic Torch relay on June 20, 2008, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. (Photo 81671126 by Guang Niu/Courtesy of Getty Images)
BAGHDAD, IRAQ - Journalist Lara Logan of CBS News questions U.S. soldiers in Camp Victory on November 17, 2006. (Photo 109347216 by Chris Hondros/Courtesy of Getty Images)
WASHINGTON - U.S. Capitol police officers scream at journalists and demonstrators as Democratic Caucus members march to the U.S. Capitol for health care reform vote March 21, 2010. (Photo 97919459 by Chip Somodevilla/Courtesy of Getty Images)
BERLIN - Russian independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta editor Dmitry Muratov joins protesters holding signs of slain human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov (L), Novaya Gazeta journalists Anna Politkovskaya (C) and Anastasia Baburova (R), January 21, 2009 after both Markelov and Baburova were murdered. (Photo 84392601 by Sean Gallup/Courtesy of Getty Images)

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