2397 casualties all countries
| Article | Media type | Gender | Cause of death |
| 19 August 2012 | SUDAN Ismaeil Abdulkarim | Television | Male | Air accident |
| 19 August 2012 | SUDAN Abdulaati Mohammed | Television | Male | Air accident |
| 13 August 2012 | SOMALIA Mohamud Ali Keyre | Radio | Male | Shooting |
| 13 August 2012 | DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Rosario Olivo | Female | Road accident | |
| 13 August 2012 | DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Julio Holguín | Male | Road accident | |
| 11 August 2012 | SYRIA Ali Abbas | Multiple | Male | Shooting |
| 10 August 2012 | SYRIA Hatem Abu Yehia | Television | Male | Unknown |
| 5 August 2012 | SYRIA Mohammed al-Saeed | Television | Male | Other non-natural |
| 31 July 2012 | IRAQ Ghazwan Anas | Television | Male | Shooting |
| 31 July 2012 | SOMALIA Abdi Jeylani Malaq Marshale | Radio | 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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