2397 casualties all countries
| Article | Media type | Gender | Cause of death |
| 9 January 2013 | BRAZIL Renato Machado Gonçalves | Radio | Male | Shooting |
| 8 January 2013 | TANZANIA Issa Ngumba | Radio | Male | Strangulation |
| 5 January 2013 | SYRIA Suheil al-Ali | Television | Male | Shooting |
| 1 January 2013 | UNITED STATES Chris Guerra | Multiple | Male | Road accident |
| 23 December 2012 | INDIA Dwijamani Singh | Television | Male | Crossfire |
| 22 December 2012 | SYRIA Haidar Smoudi | Television | Male | Shooting |
| 12 December 2012 | EGYPT El-Hosseiny Abou-Deif | Male | Crossfire | |
| 5 December 2012 | RUSSIA Kazbek Gekkiyev | Television | Male | Shooting |
| 5 December 2012 | SOUTH SUDAN Diing Chan Awuol | Online | Male | Shooting |
| 4 December 2012 | SYRIA Naji Assaad | Male | Shooting |
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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