Bridgitte Anderson: Violence against journalists is a call to action

2018 was a year of unprecedented violence against journalists. According to Reporters Without Borders, 80 journalists were killed this year, 348 are in prison, and 60 are being held hostage. These are not just statistics, they are stories of courageous people who were targeted for doing their job — for their pursuit of truth and for holding people in power to account.
These alarming figures cannot be taken lightly. Journalism is a basic principle of our democracy and recent acts of violenc