2395 casualties all countries
| Article | Media type | Gender | Cause of death |
| 23 October 2025 | UKRAINE Yevhen Karmazin | Television | Male | Drone strike |
| 23 October 2025 | UKRAINE Olena Hramova | Television | Female | Drone strike |
| 21 October 2025 | PHILIPPINES Noel Bellen Samar | Radio | Male | Shooting |
| 16 October 2025 | UKRAINE Ivan Zuev | Online | Male | Drone strike |
| 16 October 2025 | AFGHANISTAN Abdul Zahir Safi | Multiple | Male | Missile strike |
| 15 October 2025 | AFGHANISTAN Abdul Ghafor Abed | Multiple | Male | Unknown |
| 13 October 2025 | REPUBLIC OF TÜRKIYE Hakan Tosun | Multiple | Male | Beating |
| 12 October 2025 | PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES Saleh Aljafarawi | Multiple | Male | Shooting |
| 4 October 2025 | SUDAN Alnor Suleiman | Radio | Male | Missile strike |
| 3 October 2025 | UKRAINE Antoni Lallican | Multiple | Male | Drone strike |
Killing the Messenger is INSI’s annual report of journalism casualties from around the world. The statistics are compiled by monitoring press reports of journalists, media workers and citizen journalists killed as a result of their job which are then checked and verified by the Cardiff School of Journalism.
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