Good morning, everyone. I am ceo here at the newseum. I want to welcome you all for todays rededication of the journalists memorial. In 2000e newseum opened eight, more than 4 million visitors have seen this soaring memorial behind me which pays tribute to over 2200 journalists worldwide who have died covering the news. Generalists d, journalists placed himself themselves in journal every journalists place themselves in danger every day. Although some may be in the wrong place at the wrong time, most are professionals taking calculated risks, and they pay with their lives for doing their jobs. The journalists memorial bears the names of milk journalists, photographers, broadcasters, and others who have died in a line of duty. Each year, this dedication renews the newseums commitment to make sure those brave journalists are remembered. This year, we have the regrettable task of adding new names to the memorial and it represents all journalists killed in 2013. Families andl friends and colleagues who have traveled thousands of miles to join us here this morning for this remembrance of their loved ones. We also welcome back family and friends of journalists who are added to the memorial in previous years. I spoke this morning with vicky horton. This is her fourth time visiting with us on this occasion. She drove from wichita to honor , joseph. R we thank all of you for helping us pay tribute to these journalists. sey are truly among democracy heroes. I would now like to introduce our chief operating officer here at the newseum institute, who will introduce our guest speaker. Would morning. Knows thearroll dangers facing journalists from at least two perspectives, as executive editor and Senior Vice President of the Associated Press and as vice chair of the board of the committee to protect journalists. As the top news executive of the Worlds Largest independent newsgathering agency, she is responsible for the news content aps 280rmats from the two bureaus across 110 countries. Rededicateoday to this memorial and recognize those who died in 2013, but we should note that in april, a photographer for the Associated Press was killed and a reporter was injured in afghanistan. Has been a leader on many journalism friends, challenging government moves to. Imit press freedom in focusing attention and action on Security Issues for journalists in war zones and other hostile environments. From the Associated Press, Kathleen Carroll. Good morning. Im glad to be here with you, but i suspect that most of us would prefer that we didnt need to be here. Instead, we are gathered because we must be here to salute the men and women named in this memorial and the a diet and the ideals they died to uphold. Overany are dying over and are dying. Over and over, we are called together to grieve. Nearly 100 died last year, more than 1000 since 1992 according to the committee to protect journalists. The numbers are growing so fast that the newseum now offers 10 of the fallen as the representatives of the many others killed in the last year. Killed in russia and syria and egypt, mali, india, brazil. Killed for doing what so many journalists, particularly those in the comfortable confines of the united states, can too easily take for granted. Killed for being a journalist. These men and women keep going . Why keep reporting on the actions of the cartels in mexico, despite the blunt messages to stop that are left with the butchered corpses of their brave colleagues . Why keep going back to afghanistan as the troops withdraw and the worlds attention begins to drift away . Here is what one photographer said to that question because it is what i do. Within a few weeks of saying that, she was dead, shot by an afghan policeman as she shot in the sat in a car with her ap colleague and friend who was badly wounded. . Hy did the policemen shoot we dont know for sure and probably never will. Is that he, of course, they were covering the distribution of ballots for afghanistans president ial elections, by any measure, a hopeful sign of empowerment for the afghan people. That hope was why they wanted to be there to bear witness to the good after so many years of covering strife and conflict and pain and death, all among the people they had come to care about a great deal, bearing witness. Whether journalists are covering a distant land or their native soil, the root of their calling is to record the world around them and to ask westerns, to expose what others would prefer to keep hidden to ask questions, to expose what others would prefer to keep hidden. Why do we do it, and why should anyone care that we do . Because journalists are proxies for citizens. We ask the questions and seek the answers on behalf of citizens. Journalists are also the proxies for threats to those citizens. If there is a desperate handbook, the first page must say silence the journalists and the citizens will get the message dont talk back, dont fight, dont challenge, submit. But across the world, journalists are not submitting. They fight for the right to freely chronicle the actions of the powerful and the humble. Is that a lonely fight . It must be. But it need not be. Themall of us, we owe our support and our attention and the attention of our audiences, but is because indifference only empowers the killers. Indifference the drumbeat of death being met with a selective societal shrugged. Youve seen it. People feel bad for a little bit and they offer a tweet or two of morning, heartfelt, but they are soon back to posting selfies. And what would you rather do here at the newseum get filmed doing a practice newscast or come warn a bunch of journalists whose names you cannot come mourn a bunch of journalists whose names you cannot pronounce and homes you may not be able to find on a map . This makes people uncomfortable. Lets look for a minute and why these journalists died. They took pictures that somebody didnt like. They shot video that somebody didnt like. They asked questions that somebody decided were out of line. They wrote things that somebody thought shouldnt be written. They expressed ideas that somebody disagreed with. Now, you take a look at that smartphone glued to your hand. How many times a day do you post something . How many photos do you share . How many snotty remarks and bad jokes and critiques . So, what if your critical comments about a local restaurant or a sports team earned you a visit from thugs who knocked you around and threatened your children . Photof your unflattering of a lawmaker got your business license revoked . What if you were on your way to lunch one day, you took a quick video of a street protest, and suddenly guys in uniform stashed your phone and hold you to jail . And hauled you to jail . You think it couldnt happen. It happens every day, hundreds of times. When might it happen to you . Be people whoays believe that they have the right to tell others how to think and what to believe and how to behave. Too many of them try to enforce their view of the world with violence. And there will also be people who disagree and citizens who try to change things. It is the job of the journalists to report on all of that. Even when it is much harder to do than any of us in this room can imagine. Why do we do it . Longtime journalist and journalism professor Terry Anderson posed the question in a isnt essay for cpj, covering the news worth the risk . The question has some residents resonance for him. He explored that has exposed the topic often since he was released two decades ago he has explored the topic often since he was released two decades ago. S, the times many time, truth hurts, but we have to keep going and hope that what is good in people prevails over what is evil. What is good in people prevails over what is evil. Issues, asot new this wall attests. Those who recall their u. S. Journalism history know the john peter singer was part of a legal case that laid the groundwork for truth as a defense against libel. Singer had much more in common with todays web aced business is been crusading webbased businesses than crusading journalists. He was called to account for putting ink on paper, not for writing the anonymous columns that called out the governor for being crooked, for offering sweetheart deals to cronies, packing judicial benches, using the law to intimidate anyone who imposed opposed him or his pals. The law of the day was on the governors side. Was writings libel or printing anything in opposition to the sitting government. New york was and bustling colonial hub for great britain. The u. S. Constitution and the protections of its First Amendment were nearly six decades in the future. Six decades, three generations. A long way into the future. Sithe idea that his attorneys voiced, that you cannot libel someone if what you say is true, were not forgotten. It was one of the many rights that all mists colonists fought the American Revolution to enshrine and preserve. On this wall and among the faces you will see our men and women who have planted the same seeds of those same freedoms in their own countries. They and their colleagues carry on despite threats that you and i may never understand. They carry on in the face of torture, years in prison, threats to their families, despite grief, intimidation, and fear. These men and Women Deserve a few minutes of your time. This display of photographs is not a quilt of portraits that we gather once a year to remember with solemn speeches. Each one of these photos is a son or daughter, father, brother mama mother, sister brother, mother, sister, a beloved friend, someone who chose this terrifying and wonderful profession because they believed in fax, in truths, in the cleansing in facts, in truths, in the cleansing power of truth. Remember them and what they stand for. Remember them every time you pick up a newspaper, turn on the newscast, watch a live video. Remember them every time you pick up your phone. Remember them, and whisper a word of gratitude, and vow that you will never forget what they have sacrificed and why. Thank you very much. [applause] the individuals we recognize today were brought together in a fellowship that none of them would have chosen. A fellowship created by their courage, and,eir ultimately, by their sacrifice. They spoke different languages, they worked in different spheres of newsgathering. Some of them were known to millions on the nightly news. Anonymityem worked in. Some of them reported from their own communities. Some of them were on assignment far away from home. Some of them knew of impending danger, but too many of them were surprised. The Common Thread that united them all was their commitment to journalism and the fact that they left us all too soon. If a Journalists Mission is to shine light in places where there is darkness, then let the light that emanates from this journalism memorial be a testament to these journalists and to all the others whose company they join today. We will never forget them. Memory and in support of journalists working in dangerous places and in difficult situations all over the world, we will now read the names of our colleagues who represent all the journalists who were killed in 2013. Russia, akhmednabi akhmednabiyev. His news organization, novoye delo. His killers were waiting for him when he stepped into his car outside his home in the volatile republic. The newspaper editor akhmednabi , akhmednabiyev. That startedhot the engine when he was shot in the head in an ambush. He died in the same spot where he had survived a previous assassination attempt six months earlier. Despite being targeted on a death list and receiving threatening phone calls and text mednabi, 53,h reported relentlessly on government corruption and human rights violations. Helds funeral, mourners signs saying, who will be n ext . It is one of the most dangerous places for journalists in russia, where deadly attacks have become a common way to silence reporters. Faisala, yasser aljumaili, a freelancer. Faisalameraman yasser aljumaili didnt tell anyone where he was going when he borrowed money to buy a new video camera and headed to syria to cover the civil war. Deathater, he was shot to by rebels at a checkpoint in northern syria. His footage was never recovered. 35, cover the iraq war for international broadcasters, then places to places considered too dangerous for foreign journalists. Wantedd said aljumaili to capture the Untold Stories of misery, violence, on justice, and war violence, injustice, and war. He was one of many journalists killed in syria, the world that list country worlds deadliest country for journalists. Mikhail beketov, khimkinskaya pravda in russia. On a frigid november night, the newspaper and editor, mikhail beketov, was attacked outside his home by men who smashed his skull with a metal bar and left him to die in the snow. Fingers, leg, several and the ability to speak. Nearly five years later, he died at age 55 of complications from his injuries. Before the attack, the former war correspondent had used his newspaper to campaign against government corruption in suburban moscow. He was threatened, his dog was killed, and his car was firebombed. No one has been charged in his death. Russia has one of the worlds worst records for prosecuting the killers of journalists. Mick deane, sky news in egypt. Helicopters circled overhead and clouds of tear gas enveloped the streets of cairo as british cameraman mick deane raised his camera to film clashes between Security Forces and supporters of former egyptian president mohamed morsi. He was shot by a sniper and killed. Dean was 61. For nearly 40 years, he covered wars and major world events for. Nn and britains sky news described as courageous but careful, never rash, he filmed china positively cracked down on the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest and reported undercover in north korea. Was one of six journalists killed in 2013 in egypt, where violence between police and protesters made it one of the deadliest countries in the world for journalists. Ghislaine dupont, radio france internationale, in mali. The french army warned them not to go, but radio france internationale journalists were determined to shed light on the violence in northern mali. After interviewing a rebel leader, they were abducted by gunmen. An hour later, there their bulletriddled bodies were found in the desert. Dupont was 57. A theory of this a fearless reporter, she covered conflicts in angola, the democratic republic of congo, and sierra leone. She was expelled from the immigrant record public of congo in 2006 because of her reporting. Northern mali has become a stronghold of islamic stream us since the 2012 military coup plunged the country into political turmoil. Neto, radio vanguarda and vale do aco, in brazil. Crime reporter and radio host rodrigo neto refused to share details of his work for his with his family out of concern for his safety. The aggressively covered Police Corruption and was working on a book about suspected Police Involvement in a local murder motorcyclen on a gunned him down as he left a restaurant in southeastern brazil. Neto was 38. A colleague said, those who thought they were silencing rodrigo neto are going to realize that, on the contrary, they have given birth to a rodrigo neto inside each one of us. Several Police Officers were arrested in connection with netos death, however, brazil has one of the worlds worst records for prosecuting the killers of journalists. Deshbandhu, in india. Newspaper reporter sai reddy was leaving a market in central india when maoist rebels armed attackedes and an axe him, leaving him to die in the street. He was 51. For more than 20 years, reddy reported on families caught in fighting between police and maoist rebels, who have led a rebellion in india region since the late 1960s. His reporting earned him the wrath of both sides. The police accused him of being linked to the maoists. The rebels torched his house. The International Press freedom organization, reporters without borders, ranked india among the worlds five deadliest countries for journalists in 2013. Lovernando solijon, dxls radio, in the philippines. The day he died, radio commentator Fernando Solijon received an onair death threat your caller warning, coffin is already made. That night he was shot multiple times by a masked gunman who fled on a motorcycle. Known as a, was courageous commentator. He often criticized local politicians, linking some to the drug trade. A local Police Officer was arrested in connection with his death. Deadly attacks against journalists are common in the philippines, where warring factions battle for power and murders of journalists often remain unresolved. Radio france, internationale, in mali. Onund engineer claude verl could set up a sound studio anywhere. When he was taken to a remote saharan town, he jumped at the challenge. Hours after the interview, verlon and duponts bulletriddled bodies were found in the desert. Group claimednked responsibility for abducting and murdering the journalists. Known for his caution and meticulous technical skills, verlon had worked with some of the worlds deadliest countries worlds deadliest countries, including afghanistan, libya, and iraq. Olivier voisin, freelance, in syria. Olivier snuck across the border into syria. Days later, he was hit by shrapnel while covering fighting between rebels and government forces. He died three days later at age 38. Some of theorked in countrys most dangerous countries for journalists, including libya and somalia. French president Francois Hollande said, his death is a tragic reminder of the risks taken by journalists to inform our fellow citizens regardless of the dangers. Beens civil war has deadly for journalists. More than 60 journalists have been killed since the war began in 2011 according to the committee to protect analysts. Protect journalists. As Kathleen Carroll noted and as you heard from some of the accounts this morning, all too often, the death of a journalist is met with in deference indifference or even official collusion. It is important to note that this morning in moscow five individuals who were charged ana, who died of in 2006, were brought to justice. They were convicted last month. They were sentenced this morning, two to life terms, three to lesser terms, including a Police Officer who furnished the weapon. It is important to note that the person who ordered her death is still at large. But when someone is brought to justice, we need to take note. This memorial exists to remind the world of the sacrifices made every year throughout the decades and centuries by journalists. But we are but the caretakers, guardians of this memorial. On behalf of those who ultimately require no such construct really to confirm their courage and selfsacrifice, we cannot add to the laurels that these men and women have earned themselves. Each stands on their own accomplishments. Each has made the ultimate sacrifice as journalists. We do gather here every year to acknowledge that sacrifice and to encourage future generations to recognize that sacrifice and to remember it. It is to that duty and that task those will all watching around the world will pledge our continued effort. Thank you for being with us