Time and NBC are making much of a recent report to that effect. The death count was six. This included four reporters killed in a mass shooting at a local paper in Annapolis. The deranged shooter’s grievances against the paper apparently predated Trump, for you contagion theory fans. The other two were killed by a falling tree branch.
These facts have not precluded much sanctimony directed at people who say unkind things about journalists, of course. My take was that if only six were killed on the job in the course of a year, it must be a remarkably safe profession.