These were examples of journalists dying while covering conflict.
Supplement the lesson with current examples of journalists whose freedom of expression has been denied, such as Dina Meza, a journalist from Honduras who has been threatened and harassed because of her efforts to investigate corruption and human rights violations.
Straight Statistics will give you a thousand examples of journalists taking those numbers and running with them in completely the wrong direction, but you don't have to go too far to find decent data journalism taking place.
Glick also said treatment of journalists in the US was a major problem – citing recent examples of journalists being threatened with court action for 'aiding and abetting' defendants accused of espionage - and many government workers had been made afraid to talk to journalists about any topic, regardless of sensitivity.
Why aren't we talking about the mafia being in charge of news channels?" Similarly, Om Thanvi, editor of Jansatta, identified routine corruption in some sections of the Indian media, giving examples of journalists blithely accepting government land and property as gifts.
While there are plenty of examples of journalists needlessly injecting themselves into a story -- Williams' faux brush with death being the prime example -- in some instances it can make it stronger.
Pando writer Mark Ames, who wrote the article, compiled examples of journalists, media personalities, Ivy League researchers and civil libertarians, among others, collaborating with cigarette companies to push misinformation downplaying the perils of smoking.
There were also, however, many shining examples of journalists doing their jobs well, asking tough questions, getting surprising answers, and presenting them to a world still stuck inside a frothy financial bubble about to burst.
Was it an example of political journalists going too far?
It's also a good example of what journalists need to do more than ever: break stories.
