2470 casualties all countries
| Article | Media type | Gender | Cause of death |
| 22 December 2009 | KAZAKHSTAN Gennady Pavlyuk | Multiple | Male | Other non-natural |
| 19 December 2009 | MEXICO Alberto Velazquez Lopez | Male | Shooting | |
| 18 December 2009 | REPUBLIC OF TÜRKIYE Cihan Hayirsevener | Male | Shooting | |
| 15 December 2009 | COLOMBIA Harold Humberto Rivas Quevedo | Television | Male | Shooting |
| 14 December 2009 | BRAZIL Jose Givonaldo Vieira | Multiple | Male | Shooting |
| 12 December 2009 | NEPAL Nischal Thapa | Radio | Male | Road accident |
| 3 December 2009 | SOMALIA Hassan Zubeyr Haji Hassan | Television | Male | Explosion |
| 3 December 2009 | SOMALIA Yaasir Mario | Unknown | Male | Explosion |
| 3 December 2009 | SOMALIA Mohamed Amin Adan Abdulle | Radio | Male | Explosion |
| 24 November 2009 | MEXICO José Emilio Galindo Robles | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
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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