2397 casualties all countries
| Article | Media type | Gender | Cause of death |
| 10 October 2008 | COLOMBIA Pablo Josué Cedeño Charry | Television | Male | Other accident |
| 10 October 2008 | IRAQ Dyar Abas Ahmed | Online | Male | Shooting |
| 9 October 2008 | MEXICO David García Monroy | Male | Shooting | |
| 9 October 2008 | MEXICO Miguel Angel Villagómez | Male | Shooting | |
| 6 October 2008 | SRI LANKA Rashmi Mohamed | Television | Male | Explosion |
| 5 October 2008 | THAILAND Wallop Bounsampop | Male | Shooting | |
| 1 October 2008 | INDIA Soumya Vishwanathan | Television | Female | Shooting |
| 27 September 2008 | THAILAND Jaruek Rangcharoen | Male | Shooting | |
| 24 September 2008 | MEXICO Alejandro Zenon Fonseca Estrada | Radio | Male | Shooting |
| 23 September 2008 | INDIA Ravi | Unknown | 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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