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“We Don’t Cover Suicide … (Except When We Do Cover Suicide)”

A case study in the production of news

Randal A. BeamDepartment of Communication, University of Washington, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Sue Lockett JohnDepartment of Communication, University of Washington, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
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Michael Mead YaqubDepartment of Communication, University of Washington, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
Pages 1447-1465 | Published online: 02 Feb 2017

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Anna F. Carmon. (2022) Suicide loss in the modern era: An exploration of digital suicide loss obituaries. Death Studies 46:4, pages 940-948.
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Antonia Markiewitz, Florian Arendt & Sebastian Scherr. (2020) Increasing Adherence to Media Guidelines on Responsible Reporting on Suicide: Suggestions from Qualitative Interviews with German Journalists. Journalism Studies 21:4, pages 494-511.
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Samantha Kocan & Scott Parrott. (2023) Reporting on Suicide: An Examination of Suicide Coverage by U.S. Student Newspapers. Journalism & Mass Communication Educator, pages 107769582311651.
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Lieketseng Yvonne Ned, Willie Tafadzwa Chinyamurindi & Jason Bantjes. (2022) Content analysis of reports of student suicide deaths in South African print medium newspapers. Journal of Public Mental Health 21:2, pages 128-142.
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Anne O’ Brien. (2020) Reporting on mental health difficulties, mental illness and suicide: Journalists’ accounts of the challenges. Journalism 22:12, pages 3031-3047.
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Perry Parks. (2019) From sensation to stigma: Changing standards for suicide coverage in US journalism textbooks, 1894–2016. Journalism 22:6, pages 1375-1392.
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Lara Kobilke & Antonia Markiewitz. (2021) The Momo Challenge: measuring the extent to which YouTube portrays harmful and helpful depictions of a suicide game. SN Social Sciences 1:4.
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Joan Donovan & danah boyd. (2019) Stop the Presses? Moving From Strategic Silence to Strategic Amplification in a Networked Media Ecosystem. American Behavioral Scientist 65:2, pages 333-350.
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Michael Mead Yaqub, Randal A Beam & Sue Lockett John. (2017) ‘We report the world as it is, not as we want it to be’: Journalists’ negotiation of professional practices and responsibilities when reporting on suicide. Journalism 21:9, pages 1283-1299.
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Lara Antebi, Victoria Carmichael & Rob Whitley. (2020) Assessing Adherence to Responsible Reporting of Suicide Guidelines in the Canadian News Media: A 1-year Examination of Day-to-day Suicide Coverage: Évaluer la conformité au journalisme responsable en matière de directives sur le suicide dans les médias canadiens d’information: Un examen d’une année de la couverture quotidienne du suicide. The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 65:9, pages 621-629.
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Jaelea Skehan, Elizabeth Paton & Ross Tynan. (2020) The uptake of evidence‐informed guidelines for reporting suicide into media codes of practice and policies in Australia. Health Promotion Journal of Australia 31:3, pages 482-490.
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