2397 casualties all countries
| Article | Media type | Gender | Cause of death |
| 25 September 2016 | SOUTH SUDAN Isaac Vuni | Male | Unknown | |
| 24 September 2016 | JORDAN Nahed Hattar | Male | Shooting | |
| 13 September 2016 | MEXICO Agustin Pavia | Radio | Male | Shooting |
| 13 September 2016 | MEXICO Aurelio Campos | Male | Shooting | |
| 11 September 2016 | SYRIA Shamel Al-Ahmad | Male | Explosion | |
| 6 September 2016 | KENYA Dennis Otieno | Male | Shooting | |
| 30 August 2016 | IRAQ Mustafa Said | Television | Male | Unknown |
| 21 August 2016 | INDIA Kishore Dave | Male | Knife attack | |
| 19 August 2016 | IRAQ Ali Ghani | Television | Male | Shooting |
| 16 August 2016 | BRAZIL MaurĂcio Campos Rosa | 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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