Casualties

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.

We welcome your corrections, comments and additions.

INSI would like to thank the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) for access to its statistics compiled between 1990 - 2002.