2470 casualties all countries
| Article | Media type | Gender | Cause of death |
| 17 January 2012 | PAKISTAN Mukarram Khan Aatif | Radio | Male | Shooting |
| 12 January 2012 | THAILAND Wisut 'Ae' Tangwittayaporn | Male | Shooting | |
| 11 January 2012 | SYRIA Gilles Jacquier | Television | Male | Unknown |
| 6 January 2012 | MEXICO Raul Quirino Garza | Male | Shooting | |
| 5 January 2012 | PHILIPPINES Christopher Guarin | Radio | Male | Shooting |
| 3 January 2012 | BRAZIL Laecio de Souza | Radio | Male | Shooting |
| 2 January 2012 | SYRIA Shukry Abu Burghol | Male | Shooting | |
| 2 January 2012 | BELGIUM Michael Cornette | Male | Road accident | |
| 2 January 2012 | YEMEN Unidentified | Unknown | Male | Strangulation |
| 29 December 2011 | SYRIA Basil Al-Sayed | Online | 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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