Correspondent
YOUNGSTOWN While reporting on an anti-poaching patrol along a road leading to a nature preserve in the small African country of Burkina Faso, Spanish journalists David Beriain and Roberto Fraile were killed when armed terrorists reportedly fired on their convoy.
When they were killed April 26, Beriain and Fraile, a war reporter and photographer, respectively, joined the list of 58 journalists who have been slain because of their professional activities since 2020.
Eight have died so far this year, according to Reporters without Borders, an international organization founded in 1985 to defend and promote freedom of information while protecting journalists worldwide. The organization also records actions by governments to impede a free press.