Resource Tag: MEDIA COVERAGE. NONFICTION

This article outlines the response of the Australian Press Council to a draft set of guidelines on the reporting of suicide. The Council noted 3 key matters that need to be taken into account before it is accepted as fact the reporting of suicide is, in itself, bad. These key matters are: the statistical link […]

This polemic explores a newspaper article about youth justice, suggesting a dominant discourse holds a powerful hegemony over large parts of the British media through which young people generally, & those in trouble with the law, are demonized. When events take place which threaten to disrupt that discourse, strenuous journalistic efforts have to be made […]

The aim of this study was to characterize individuals who died by suicide & their circumstances as reported in the lay press & to examine for evidence of newsworthiness impacting on reportage. Newspaper reports were prospectively collected for a 10-year period (1995-2005). 61 reports were collected from Tasmasian papers. Newsworthiness (prominence, notoriety, & domicile, & […]

This project examined how the Irish print media reports suicide. The quantitative research captured newspaper articles on suicide, classified & catalogued these under a number of headings, & analysed the data produced by this process. The qualitative approach involved the close reading of samples of the items collected with a view to understanding the social […]

This press release outlines the 1994 position of the Australian Press Council on reporting suicide. It was the belief of the Council that it was not possible to draw up sufficiently precise guidelines to deal with all potential situations. Instead, the Council stated its preference to rely on the continuining responsible attitude of the press. […]

Approximately 10% of Australian newspaper, television, & radio items on suicide retrieved over a 12-month period were rated for quality. Reporting of suicide was extensive; 4813 items were found. The nature of reporting was variable. Items tended to be about completed suicide & most commonly involved content related to an individual’s experiences, policy/programme initiatives, &/or […]

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There is a paucity of studies examining which suicides are considered newsworthy. By combining data on media reports of individuals’ suicides with routinely collected suicide data, it was found that 1% of Australian suicides were reported over a 1-year period. There was evidence of over-reporting of suicides by older people and females, and those involving […]

This article includes a discussion between D Shaffer and M S Gould.

This study analyzed the content of newspaper articles reporting police suicides from 1 January 1996 through 1 October 1998. These articles were gathered from four databases: Newspaper Abstracts, New York Times, Data Times, and Westlaw (United States Newspapers). Over 200 local, regional, and national newspapers are included in these databases. The search terms were “police” […]

In this article, I employ the concept of `unintended consequence’ for my analysis of an elderly woman’s suicide in China. The larger socio-political context of the narrative that will follow is the building of the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River. As the largest hydropower project ever built in the world, this dam entailed […]

The present study was designed to examine whether age, gender, and depression level may moderate the effect of exposure to suicide news on the suicidality of college students in Taiwan. A representative sample of 3,222 college students were recruited from Southern Taiwan with a total of 2,602 useable surveys returned. Results showed that only depression […]

This paper examines the emergence of a new method of suicide in Hong Kong by carbon monoxide poisoning generated by the burning of charcoal. In just 6 years, it has become the second most common means of suicide after jumping from heights. The profile of these charcoal-burning suicide victims is different from that of other […]

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The aim of this study was to investigate how the non-fiction media in Canada portray both suicide & mental health, & to test the feasibility of asking the general public to monitor media in the province of Nova Scotia using standardized checklists. The authors found that media reporting of mental illness was generally of good […]

The authors examined the characteristics of suicides by charcoal-burning in Hong Kong, & explored links between macro-level economic & social changes with the subjective experiences of those surviving a charcoal-burning suicide attempt. They found that people who completed suicide by this method were more likely to have been economically active & physically healthy, & were […]

This study addresses concerns over newspapers’ reporting of suicide cases in Hong Kong, using the WHO guidelines on the reporting of suicide news as a reference for comparison. The authors compared the official suicide information extracted from the Coroner’s Court for the year 2000 with newspaper reports of suicides taken from 5 major Chinese local […]

Published in “Back to the Future: Refocusing the Image of Suicide,” ed. by J L McIntosh

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Published in “Back to the Future: Refocusing the Image of Suicide,” ed. by J L McIntosh