Sniper fire claimed the life of Omar Al-Ghantawi, 19, another citizen journalist on 21 June.
Mohamed Hamdo Hallaq, also a citizen journalist, died during the shelling of the northern town of Azaz on 2 July.
Citizen journalist Hozan Abdel Halim Mahmoud was killed one day earlier while filming clashes in the north-eastern province of Al-Hasaka.
The year also saw the first recorded fatality of a 'citizen journalist.
On 25 June, citizen journalist Ghias Khaled Al-Hmouria was shot dead in Douma while filming an operation of the rebel Free Syrian Army.
The student was not a citizen journalist or a blogger, but a stringer who was asked to report on the event for a wire service.
AlSamadi was a citizen journalist and photographer who regularly filmed demonstrations.
On 10 June, Khaled Al-Bakir, a citizen journalist also known as Abu Sliman, 30, was killed by an artillery shell in the town of Al-Qassir, south of Homs.
But it may be far more difficult to moderate the behaviour of the "citizen journalist", who in this smartphone era could easily have taken the New York subway pictures.
Chris DeWolfe, CEO of MySpace, another NewsCorp property, was also at Davos, where a MySpace citizen journalist, Rebecca McQuigg of Los Angeles, provided updates to WSJ.com and the MySpace community.
Suhaib Dib, a citizen journalist and an activist well-known in Damascus, is reported to have been the victim of a targeted killing on 4 July in the suburb of Al-Meliha.
Mohammed Al-Khalid, a citizen-journalist from Homs, is reported to have been executed by an armed group in Aleppo on 18 November and Abdullah Hassan Kaake, also a citizen-journalist, is said to have died under torture in the same city one day earlier.
As soon as I got to work, I wrote a fairly irate but detailed email, as a private citizen rather than a journalist, to the Connect to Cardiff (C2C) online service, pointing out the mayhem the changes were causing and asking for warning signs to be put up straightaway as a minimum until the lines could be re-painted.
The issue has been muddied as the Internet has blurred the line between journalist and private citizen.
However, Bill Thompson, a technology journalist, said the move to citizen journalism didn't necessarily spell the end of the professional.
Fast forwarding to last week, it was deeply moving to be back in the White House, finally not as a closeted journalist or anything other than an open and affirming public citizen.
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