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Article Media type Gender Cause of death
7 February 2008 | MEXICO Bonifacio Cruz Santiago Print Male Shooting
7 February 2008 | MEXICO Alfonso Cruz Cruz Print Male Shooting
5 February 2008 | MEXICO Francisco Ortiz Monroy Print Male Shooting
30 January 2008 | IRAQ Alaa Assi Television Male Explosion
30 January 2008 | IRAQ Alaa Abdul Karim Television Male Explosion
28 January 2008 | SOMALIA Hassan Kafi Hared Multiple Male Explosion
23 January 2008 | GUATEMALA Hugo Arce Print Male Unknown
14 January 2008 | AFGHANISTAN Carsten Thomassen Print Male Explosion
12 January 2008 | NEPAL Pushpa Shrestha Print Male Shooting
5 January 2008 | BRAZIL Walter Lessa de Oliveira Television Male Shooting

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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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