2397 casualties all countries
| Article | Media type | Gender | Cause of death |
| 8 April 2012 | INDONESIA Leiron Kogoya | Male | Shooting | |
| 8 April 2012 | PHILIPPINES Aldion Layao | Radio | Male | Shooting |
| 5 April 2012 | SOMALIA Mahad Salad Adan | Radio | Male | Shooting |
| 3 April 2012 | IRAQ Kamiran Salaheddin | Television | Male | Explosion |
| 1 April 2012 | NEPAL Yadav Poudel | Multiple | Male | Knife attack |
| 29 March 2012 | COLOMBIA Jesús Martínez Orozco | Radio | Male | Shooting |
| 28 March 2012 | ANGOLA Feliciano Saiminho "Magic" | Television | Male | Air accident |
| 26 March 2012 | SYRIA Walid Bledi | Television | Male | Shooting |
| 26 March 2012 | SYRIA Naseem Intriri | Television | Male | Shooting |
| 8 March 2012 | HAITI Jean Liphète Nelson | 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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