2397 casualties all countries
| Article | Media type | Gender | Cause of death |
| 6 August 2018 | CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC Kirill Radchenko | Television | Male | Shooting |
| 6 August 2018 | CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC Orkhan Dzhemal | Television | Male | Shooting |
| 31 July 2018 | LIBYA Musa Abdul Kareem | Male | Torture | |
| 26 July 2018 | SOMALIA Abdirisaq Qasim Iman | Multiple | Male | Shooting |
| 24 July 2018 | MEXICO Ruben Pat | Online | Male | Shooting |
| 20 July 2018 | PHILIPPINES Joey Llana | Radio | Male | Shooting |
| 16 July 2018 | SYRIA Mustafa Salama | Television | Male | Explosion |
| 28 June 2018 | UNITED STATES Rebecca Smith | Female | Shooting | |
| 28 June 2018 | UNITED STATES John McNamara | Male | Shooting | |
| 28 June 2018 | UNITED STATES Gerald Fischman | 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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