INSI monitors all places where members of the news media are in danger at work, whether from conflict, disaster, disease, hostile regimes or other violent elements.

We will track and record all staff and freelance casualties during coverage-related activities -- print, photo and video journalists as well as essential support staff such as drivers, fixers and translators.

As we are a safety organisation, our casualty list includes all causes of death, whether deliberate, accidental or health-related.

For various reasons on older lists we included only one name for each person. No disrespect is intended. There are also bound to be some errors on any lists of this nature and, as every journalist knows, the most offensive place to make a mistake is in an obituary. One piece of information that can be sensitive is a journalist's nationality, and in many cases the records do not show this. Where we have made an assumption as to nationality we have placed that in italics and in brackets.

We welcome your corrections, comments and additions.

INSI would like to thank the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) for access to its statistics compiled since 1990 (see submenu at left).

Other reports on media casualties in the field of journalism and newsgathering are produced by the following organisations:

International Press Institute - www.freemedia.at

World Association of Newspapers - www.wan-press.org

Committee to Protect Journalists - www.cpj.org

Reporters sans frontieres - www.rsf.org

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