2397 casualties all countries
| Article | Media type | Gender | Cause of death |
| 19 January 2009 | RUSSIA Anastasia Baburova | Female | Shooting | |
| 17 January 2009 | VENEZUELA Orel Sambrano | Multiple | Male | Shooting |
| 11 January 2009 | NEPAL Uma Singh | Multiple | Female | Knife attack |
| 8 January 2009 | SRI LANKA Lasantha Wickrematunga | Male | Shooting | |
| 6 January 2009 | PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES Basel Faraj | Television | Male | Explosion |
| 5 January 2009 | RUSSIA Shafig Amrakhov | Online | Male | Shooting |
| 4 January 2009 | PAKISTAN Mohammad Imran | Male | Explosion | |
| 4 January 2009 | PAKISTAN Tahir Awan | Male | Explosion | |
| 1 January 2009 | SOMALIA Hassan Mayow Hassan | Radio | Male | Shooting |
| 26 December 2008 | PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES Hamza Shahin | Multiple | Male | Crossfire |
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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