Overview
- Reporters sans frontières says nearly half of the fatalities occurred in the Gaza Strip, with a large share attributed to Israeli forces.
- Seventy-nine percent of those killed were victims of war or organized-crime violence, underscoring the two dominant threats to media workers.
- Mexico was among the deadliest countries for reporters in 2025 due to cartel-related attacks, marking its worst year in three.
- RSF’s annual accounting covers 1 December 2024 to 1 December 2025 and documents a renewed rise in lethal attacks on the press.
- Syria has the highest number of missing media professionals, with many arrested or captured under Bashar al-Assad still unaccounted for.