2397 casualties all countries
| Article | Media type | Gender | Cause of death |
| 18 March 2009 | IRAN Omidreza Mirsayafi | Online | Male | Unknown |
| 10 March 2009 | AFGHANISTAN Javed Yazamy | Television | Male | Shooting |
| 10 March 2009 | IRAQ Souhaib Adnan | Television | Male | Explosion |
| 10 March 2009 | IRAQ Haidar Hashim Suhail | Television | Male | Explosion |
| 3 March 2009 | LIBYA Salah Abdul Hamid | Male | Road accident | |
| 3 March 2009 | LIBYA Soad Faraj Abu Sheba | Female | Road accident | |
| 23 February 2009 | PHILIPPINES Ernie Rollin | Radio | Male | Shooting |
| 22 February 2009 | SOUTH AFRICA Steve Dlamini | Male | Road accident | |
| 18 February 2009 | PAKISTAN Mosa Khankel | Television | Male | Shooting |
| 18 February 2009 | CHINA Bao Cunliang | Television | Male | Other accident |
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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