This year was a terrible time to be a journalist.

Attacked on the campaign trail, slammed on social media, chastised from the Oval Office: The press has been subject to near-constant efforts to label the fourth estate as an enemy of the people. And while faith in the media is growing , a majority of Americans still have a bone-deep distrust of the press.

Take a look at some of the struggles journalists faced on a daily basis throughout the U.S., where a free press is a constitutional right, and across the globe, where those freedoms are hard to even imagine.

A Saudi Arabian kill squad murdered Jamal Khashoggi

Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist and columnist for The Washington Post, was murdered shortly after he entered the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul in October. His death has been linked to the countrys crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, who the CIA says directly ordered the killing.