y 19 journalists killed as a result of their work—the least deadly year since CPJ started tracking this, in 1985. But at the same time, the number of journalists in prison rose sharply for the second consecutive year, with 136 imprisoned at the end of 2002. CPJ's annual survey of these attacks on press freedom was published last week. </I>Attacks on the Press in 2002<I> catalogues 500 cases of media repression last year, in more than 120. This is the preface to the book, which can be read online at <a hre