2321 casualties all countries
| Article | Media type | Gender | Cause of death |
| 25 July 2009 | GEORGIA Joni Kublashvili | Television | Female | Road accident |
| 16 July 2009 | MEXICO Ernesto Montanez Valdivia | Male | Shooting | |
| 15 July 2009 | RUSSIA Natalia Estemirova | Female | Shooting | |
| 14 July 2009 | MEXICO Martín Javier Miranda Avilés | Male | Knife attack | |
| 4 July 2009 | SOMALIA Mohamud Mohamed Yusuf | Radio | Male | Shooting |
| 4 July 2009 | RUSSIA Nelya Longortova | Television | Female | Other accident |
| 4 July 2009 | RUSSIA Victor Kurtyamov | Television | Male | Other accident |
| 4 July 2009 | RUSSIA Natalya Ostanina | Television | Female | Other accident |
| 3 July 2009 | HONDURAS Gabriel Fino Noriega | Radio | Male | Shooting |
| 29 June 2009 | RUSSIA Vyacheslav Yaroshenko | Male | Beating |
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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