Resource Tag: MEDIA COVERAGE. NONFICTION
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Newspaper Reporting of Suicide Cases in Hong Kong
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 […]
The Western Health and Social Services Board, Northern Ireland, Suicide Prevention Strategy
Published in “Back to the Future: Refocusing the Image of Suicide,” ed. by J L McIntosh
Media and Suicide
Published in “Back to the Future: Refocusing the Image of Suicide,” ed. by J L McIntosh
Suicide Reporting in Print Media: an Evaluation of the Effect of Guidelines Issued to Editors and Journalists
Published in “The Suicidal Process: Challenges for Treatment and Prevention”
Attitudes in the Media Toward Suicide – Preliminary Results of the International Headline Study
Published in “The Suicidal Process: Challenges for Treatment and Prevention”
Changes of Labelling of Suicidal Behavior in Media Reports in Lithuania 1994 and 1996
Published in “The Suicidal Process: Challenges for Treatment and Prevention”
Suicide Reporting in Turkish Media
Published in “The Suicidal Process: Challenges for Treatment and Prevention”
The Effect of the September 11 Terrorist Attacks on Suicide and Deliberate Self-Harm: a Time Trend Study
The authors investigated the possible impact of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, on suicidal behaviour in the Netherlands. There was evidence of an increase in rates of suicide & deliberate self-harm in the weeks immediately following the attacks. The contrast of these findings with Durkheim’s original suggestion that suicide rates decline in times […]
Suicide in the Media: a Quantitative Review of Studies Based on Nonfictional Stories
The authors reviewed recent research on the effect of suicide stories in the media on real-life suicide rates. Logistic regression techniques applied to 419 findings from 55 studies determined that: studies measuring the presence of an entertainment or political celebrity were 5.27 times more likely to find a copycat effect; studies focusing on stories that […]