After the fall of the Ba'athist regime in the war of 2003, hundreds of independent media outlets sprang up in Iraq. However, many of these newspapers, radio stations, television channels and other media had shallow roots and minimal institutional capacity. Many of them have difficulties sustaining professional journalistic standards. There is a body of working journalists in Iraq who continue in the profession despite the repeated targeting of media workers; 47 of them were killed in 2007 alone. Of the hundreds of newspapers that came into existence, most could not sustain professional standards or survive as sustainable operations and folded quickly. Secondly, Iraqi media attention and resources tend to be focused on security and political issues, simply reporting the facts as they happen, with a minimum of analysis. Social reporting on relevant, post-conflict issues like health care, the environment, the position of women, poverty etc, and investigative journalism remain an underdeveloped area in Iraq’s media scene.