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Guidance on Reporting Suicide

Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) (2018), 12 pp.

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Reporting Bad News: Negotiating the Boundaries Between Intrusion and Fair Representation in Media Coverage of Death

Sallyanne Duncan, Jacki Newton

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2017), xii, 223 pp.

"Much has been written about disasters and large-scale tragedies, but this research concentrates on individual loss and the relationship between journalist and vulnerable interviewee. While much discussion in this area is negative, focusing on the ethics of intrusion and journalists who act insensit ... more

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Preventing Suicide: A Resource for Media Professionals
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World Health Organization (WHO), updated ed. (2017), viii, 18 pp.

"This resource booklet briefly summarizes the current evidence on the impact of media reporting of suicide, and provides information for media professionals about how to report on suicide, recognizing that there are times when a suicide will need to be reported on the grounds of its newsworthiness. ... more

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Comunicación, infancia y adolescencia, guía para periodistas: Suicidio

Valeria Román, Celina Abud

Buenos Aires: UNICEF; Red Argentina de Periodismo Científico (2017), 23 pp.

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Suicide Prevention Media Campaigns: A Systematic Literature Review

Jane Pirkis, Alyssia Rossetto, Angela Nicholas, Maria Ftanou, Jo Robinson, Nicola Reavley

Health Communication, volume 34, issue 4 (2017), pp. 402-414

"Suicide prevention media campaigns are gaining traction as a means of combatting suicide. The current review set out to synthesize information about the effectiveness of these campaigns. We searched four electronic databases for studies that provided evidence on the effectiveness of media campaigns ... . We focused on studies that described an evaluation of the effectiveness of an entire campaign or a public service announcement explicitly aimed at suicide prevention. We identified 20 studies of varying quality. Studies that looked at whether campaign exposure leads to improved knowledge and awareness of suicide found support for this. Most studies that considered whether campaign materials can achieve improvements in attitudes toward suicide also found this to be the case, although there were some exceptions. Some studies found that media campaigns could boost help-seeking, whereas others suggested that they made no difference or only had an impact when particular sources of help or particular types of help-seeking were considered. Relatively few studies had sufficient statistical power to examine whether media campaigns had an impact on the ultimate behavioral outcome of suicides, but those that did demonstrated significant reductions. Our review indicates that media campaigns should be considered in the suite of interventions that might be used to prevent suicide. Evidence for their effectiveness is still amassing, but there are strong suggestions that they can achieve positive results in terms of certain suicide-related outcomes. Care should be taken to ensure that campaign developers get the messaging of campaigns right, and further work is needed to determine which messages work and which ones do not, and how effective messages should be disseminated. There is an onus on those developing and delivering campaigns to evaluate them carefully and to share the findings with others. There is a need for evaluations that employ rigorous designs assessing the most pertinent outcomes. These evaluations should explore the nature of given campaigns in detail – in particular the messaging contained within them – in order to tease out which messages work well and which do not. They should also take into account the reach of the campaign, in order to determine whether it would be reasonable to expect that they might have their desired effect." (Abstract) more

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Ethics and Visual Research Methods: Theory, Methodology, and Practice

Deborah Warr, Marilys Guillemin, Susan Cox, Jenny Waycott (eds.)

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xxi, 266 pp.

"This edited collection provides a comprehensive overview of ethical issues associated with visual research methods. Considering the work of researchers across a range of disciplines using visual methods in research, it offers practical and thoughtful discussions of emerging methodological and ethic ... more

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Social Media and Suicide Prevention: A Systematic Review

Jo Robinson, Georgina Cox, Eleanor Bailey, Sarah Hetrick, Maria Rodrigues, Steve Fisher, Helen Herrman

Early Intervention in Psychiatry, volume 10, issue 2 (2016), pp. 103-121

"Social media platforms are commonly used for the expression of suicidal thoughts and feelings, particularly by young people. Despite this, little is known about the ways in which social media can be used for suicide prevention. The aim of this study was to conduct a systematic review to identify cu ... more

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Suicide in the Media: A Quantitative Review of Studies Based on Nonfictional Stories

Steven Stack

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, volume 35, issue 2 (2005), pp. 121-133

"Research on the effect of suicide stories in the media on suicide in the real world has been marked by much debate and inconsistent findings. Recent narrative reviews have suggested that research based on nonfictional models is more apt to uncover imitative effects than research based on fictional ... more

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From the Margins to the Mainstream: Putting Public Health in the Spotlight. A Resource for Health Communicators

Copenhagen: World Health Organization (WHO) (2003), 4 modules + annexes

"This manual introduces public health workers and advocates to the essential elements of communications (with many examples and models), ranging from small brochures or radio interviews, to large campaigns and ongoing projects. It provides guidance in recognizing and combating the ‘hazard merchant ... more

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Suicide Sensitive Journalism Handbook

Sunanda Deshapriya, Sanjana Hattotuwa

Colombo: Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA); PressWise Trust (2003), 30 pp.

Preventing Suicide: A Resource for Media Professionals Key Guidance

Preventing Suicide: A Resource for Media Professionals
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