A new blog from Los Angeles Times reporter Jill Leovy is creating awareness of how just how many people are killed in Los Angeles County.

Evidently two or three people are killed each day by others in LA County, but most of those stories go untold. Until now.

Most LA media outlets only report "newsworthy" stories like celebrity killings or school shootings. That makes up less than 10% of all murders in that area.

Over the past year, Leovy's blog The Homicide Report has documented every murder in Los Angeles county. Something that has never been done before.

"The Web offered what the paper did not: unlimited space," Leovy wrote in a front-page story summarizing her year as creator and the first blogger for The Homicide Report.

The Homicide Report began in January 2007 with 17 names collected from the coroner's office and grew to include at least 845 names by end of the year.

So why is Leovy doing this?

"Your basic mission as a journalist, you bear witness, you see things that are unseen," Leovy said. "It's sort of awful to think of people being murdered and nobody seeing it."

Leovy recently handed off blogging duties to a colleague, Ruben Vives. She says she'll still write longer pieces, but Vives' short and to-the-point entries are more suitable for a blog.