Mediagazer: CPJ launches The Last Column, a project that attempts to immortalize the work of reporters around the world who are killed in the line of duty (Mahita Gajanan/TIME)

8:20 AM ET, March 15, 2019

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Mahita Gajanan / TIME:

CPJ launches The Last Column, a project that attempts to immortalize the work of reporters around the world who are killed in the line of duty — The names of the dead trickle out slowly at first — Marie Colvin, Samir Kassir, James Foley — before more than 1,300 others pour together to form a thick black outline of a box.

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