2397 casualties all countries
| Article | Media type | Gender | Cause of death |
| 8 November 2008 | PAKISTAN Qari Mohammad Shoaib | Male | Crossfire | |
| 3 November 2008 | PAKISTAN Abdul Razzak Johra | Television | Male | Other non-natural |
| 23 October 2008 | CROATIA Ivo Pukanic | Male | Explosion | |
| 23 October 2008 | CROATIA Niko Franjic | Male | Explosion | |
| 19 October 2008 | GUYANA Akila Jacobs | Female | Road accident | |
| 17 October 2008 | BANGLADESH Dipu Sikander | Male | Road accident | |
| 15 October 2008 | NIGERIA Eiphraim Audu | Radio | Male | Shooting |
| 13 October 2008 | UNITED STATES Dave Garrett | Television | Male | Air accident |
| 13 October 2008 | UNITED STATES John Downhower | Television | Male | Air accident |
| 12 October 2008 | PERU Adelmo Chavez Goicochea | Radio | Male | Other non-natural |
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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