2470 casualties all countries
| Article | Media type | Gender | Cause of death |
| 16 October 2017 | MALTA Daphne Caruana Galizia | Unknown | Female | Explosion |
| 14 October 2017 | SOMALIA Ali Nur Siad-Ahmed | Television | Male | Explosion |
| 5 October 2017 | MEXICO Edgar Esqueda | Online | Male | Torture |
| 1 October 2017 | IRAQ Louay Sadiq Meshaal | Television | Male | Explosion |
| 27 September 2017 | SYRIA Mehmet Aksoy | Unknown | Male | Shooting |
| 20 September 2017 | INDIA Shantanu Bhowmik | Television | Male | Beating |
| 13 September 2017 | SOMALIA Abdullahi Osman Moalim | Multiple | Male | Explosion |
| 13 September 2017 | HONDURAS Carlos Williams Flores | Television | Male | Shooting |
| 6 September 2017 | INDIA Gauri Lankesh | Female | Shooting | |
| 5 September 2017 | MEXICO Juan Carlos Hernandez Rios | Online | 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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