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Attackers shot TV journalist Malalai Maiwand and her driver in Afghanistan.
The act took place in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, Maiwand's employer, the private television broadcaster Enekaas TV, announced on Thursday.
A spokesman for the Nangarhar provincial governor and the local hospital confirmed the killings.
A spokesman for the provincial governor, Attaullah Chogjani, said several perpetrators fired on Maiwand after driving her car from her home in Nangarhar province.
Initially, no one confessed to the attack.
Both the militant Islamist Taliban and the terrorist militia Islamic State (IS) are active in the province.
Maiwand has been working as a presenter for the private TV and radio station Enikass for about four years, as the station's boss, Salmai Latifi, told the German press agency.
He blamed "enemies of the country" for the act and said the station had received death threats.
In 2017, several people were killed in an explosion near the transmitter.
In 2018, gunmen kidnapped the station's director, but he was later released.
Second journalist killing within a month
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Maiwand's murder is the second journalist killing in Afghanistan in a month.
Just a few weeks ago, the reporter Alijas Dajee, who works for the US broadcaster Radio Liberty, was killed in an attack with a car bomb in Laschkar Gah in southern Afghanistan.
According to the organization Human Rights Watch, Dajee had previously received threats from the radical Islamic Taliban.
Former television journalist Jama Siawasch was killed in a similar manner in November.
The organization Reporters Without Borders rates Afghanistan as one of the most dangerous countries for journalists.
At least ten journalists and media workers were killed there in 2019.
Although there are currently peace talks between the government in Kabul and the Taliban, attacks are repeatedly being carried out in Afghanistan against prominent representatives from the media, religious communities, politicians and human rights activists.