2470 casualties all countries
| Article | Media type | Gender | Cause of death |
| 25 December 2016 | RUSSIA Michael Luzhetsky | Television | Male | Air accident |
| 25 December 2016 | RUSSIA Vadim Denisov | Television | Male | Air accident |
| 25 December 2016 | RUSSIA Valery Rzhevskiy | Television | Male | Air accident |
| 25 December 2016 | RUSSIA Alexander Suranov | Television | Male | Air accident |
| 25 December 2016 | RUSSIA Alexander Getof | Television | Male | Air accident |
| 25 December 2016 | RUSSIA Evgery Tolstov | Television | Male | Air accident |
| 25 December 2016 | RUSSIA Dmitry Ranseur | Television | Male | Air accident |
| 25 December 2016 | RUSSIA Oleg Pestov | Television | Male | Air accident |
| 19 December 2016 | PHILIPPINES Larry Que | Male | Shooting | |
| 13 December 2016 | MYANMAR Soe Moe Tun | Male | Beating |
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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