WASHINGTON — 

CBS sports reporter Grant Wahl passed out while reporting on Argentina's quarter-final match against the Netherlands at the Lusail Landmark Stadium in Qatar on Friday (December 9) , lost consciousness and died after being rushed to a nearby hospital.

U.S. Soccer, FIFA and the U.S. State Department have all expressed shock and condolences at the tragic loss of Val, who is the latest journalist to die on the job so far this year.

On the same day as Val's untimely death, the Brussels-based International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) released a new annual report stating that 67 journalists and journalists have died so far in 2022. Personnel were attacked and killed while doing news work. This figure does not include the Val who passed out and died.

This year's harrowing figure is up from last year when a total of 47 journalists were killed in attacks, and is yet another death toll for the nature of their work since 95 journalists were killed in 2018. The year with the highest number of murders. The reporreleased by the International Federation of Journalists said journalists who lost their lives were killed "by targeted killings, bomb attacks or crossfire incidents".

For journalists, Ukraine is the most dangerous place this year. A total of 12 journalists have been killed in connection with the Ukraine war this year.

“The increase in killings of journalists and other journalists is a matter of graveconcern and should alarm governments,” Anthony Bellanger, general secretary of the International Federation of Journalists, said in a statement. He emphasized thatjournalism is a key pillar of the idea of ​​democracy.

Journalists killed this year include award-winning American journalist Brent Renaud. He was shot and killed in March while reporting from an area near Kiev. American Fox TV cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski and 24-year-old Ukrainian producer Oleksandra Kuvshynova in Kiev in March this year The suburbs were killed because the car they were traveling in was shot and attacked.

Domestically, Jeff German, an investigative reporter for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, was found dead in his home in September, stabbed multiple times. The police finally arrested the suspect with the investigation and assistance of Germain's colleagues.

In the Middle East, Al Jazeera's senior reporter Shireen Abu Akleh was shot and killed in May this year while wearing a steel helmet, a bulletproof vest and a large white "reporter" sign printed on his chest while covering the West Bank.

Mexico has long been one of the most dangerous places for journalists to work, with at least 11 journalists killed in attacks this year.

According to statistics from the International Federation of Journalists, at least 375 journalists and other journalists were arrested and imprisoned around the world this year.

There are at least 84 journalists imprisoned in mainland China and Hong Kong alone, ranking first in this list of arrested journalists by country. Myanmar is second with 64 journalists, while Turkey is third with 51 journalists.

"These figures are staggering to read and cast doubt on the government's will to address a serious threat to press freedom," Belanger said in a statement.