2395 casualties all countries
| Article | Media type | Gender | Cause of death |
| 23 August 2006 | VENEZUELA Jesús Flores Rojas | Male | Shooting | |
| 22 August 2006 | INDIA Hitendra Prasad | Male | Beating | |
| 22 August 2006 | COLOMBIA Atilano Segundo Perez Barrios | Radio | Male | Shooting |
| 21 August 2006 | SRI LANKA Sinnathamby Sivamaharajah | Male | Shooting | |
| 15 August 2006 | SRI LANKA Sathasivam Baskaram | Male | Shooting | |
| 14 August 2006 | GUYANA Shazim Mohamed | Male | Shooting | |
| 13 August 2006 | PHILIPPINES Ismael Cabugayan | Television | Male | Road accident |
| 13 August 2006 | PHILIPPINES Hazel Recheta | Television | Female | Road accident |
| 13 August 2006 | PHILIPPINES Arnel Guiao | Television | Male | Road accident |
| 9 August 2006 | MEXICO Enrique Perea Quintanilla | Male | Shooting |
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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