Reporters Without Borders tracks attacks on freedom of information.
 This includes reporters, correspondents, citizen journalists, editors, editorial-writers, columnists, and visual journalists, such as photojournalists (journalists who use the medium of photography)
== Journalists today ==A worldwide sample of 27,500 journalists in 67 countries in 2012-2016 produced the following profile:57 percent male;mean age of 38mean years of experience, 13college degree, 56 percent; graduate degree, 29 percent61 percent specialized in journalism/communications at college62 percent identified as generalists and 23 percent as hard-news beat journalists47 percent were members of a professional association80 percent worked full-time50 percent worked in print, 23 percent on television, 17 percent on radio, and 16 percent online

