2397 casualties all countries
| Article | Media type | Gender | Cause of death |
| 12 August 2008 | INDIA Javed Ahmed Mir | Television | Male | Crossfire |
| 10 August 2008 | GEORGIA Alexander Klimchuk | Multiple | Male | Crossfire |
| 10 August 2008 | GEORGIA Grigol Chikhladze | Multiple | Male | Crossfire |
| 9 August 2008 | PHILIPPINES Dennis Cuesta | Radio | Male | Shooting |
| 7 August 2008 | PHILIPPINES Martin Roxas | Radio | Male | Shooting |
| 7 August 2008 | DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Normando García | Television | Male | Shooting |
| 1 August 2008 | THAILAND Athiwat Chainurat | Female | Shooting | |
| 31 July 2008 | BANGLADESH Ainul Huq | Male | Road accident | |
| 21 July 2008 | UNITED STATES Steven Shoob | Television | Male | Road accident |
| 14 July 2008 | ZIMBABWE Richard Mills | Male | Suicide |
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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