2397 casualties all countries
| Article | Media type | Gender | Cause of death |
| 9 March 2021 | REPUBLIC OF TÜRKIYE Hazim Özsu | Radio | Male | Shooting |
| 1 March 2021 | SOMALIA Jamal Farah Adan | Radio | Male | Shooting |
| 3 February 2021 | LEBANON Lokman Slim | Multiple | Male | Shooting |
| 19 January 2021 | ETHIOPIA Dawit Kebede Araya | Television | Male | Shooting |
| 2 January 2021 | AFGHANISTAN Bismellah Adel Aimaq | Radio | Male | Shooting |
| 30 December 2020 | YEMEN Adeeb al-Janani | Television | Male | Shooting |
| 23 December 2020 | COLOMBIA Andrés Felipe Guevara Henao | Male | Shooting | |
| 21 December 2020 | AFGHANISTAN Rahmatullah Nikzad | Multiple | Male | Shooting |
| 12 December 2020 | SYRIA Hussein Khattab | Multiple | Male | Shooting |
| 12 December 2020 | IRAN Roohollah Zam | Online | Male | Strangulation |
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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