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Suicide is a public health issue. Media and online coverage of suicide should be informed by using best practices. Some suicide deaths may be newsworthy. However, the way media cover suicide can influence behavior negatively by contributing to contagion or positively by encouraging help-seeking.
The 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline is a hotline for individuals in crisis or for those looking to help someone else. To speak with a trained listener, call 988. Visit 988lifeline.org for crisis chat services or for more information.
The Veterans Crisis Line connects veterans and service members in crisis and their families and friends with qualified, caring U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs responders through a confidential hotline, online chat, or text. Dial 988 and Press 1 or visit veterancrisisline.net for crisis chat services and more information.
The Crisis Text Line is a texting service for emotional crisis support. To text with a trained helper, text SAVE to 741741. It is free, available 24/7, and confidential.
Poynter offers a free online course to advance reporters’ understanding about responsible coverage of mental health conditions and suicide.
This site offers guidance for bloggers to safely write about suicide. Blogs can be an important source of support for people going through a difficult time.
This site provides recommendations for media outlets to responsibly cover a shooting of more than one person in a public setting.
Cisco and SAVE have created an AI detection tool to screen adherence to the best practice recommendations. It is a free, open-source app just for journalists.
Experts in the death, dying, and grief space have come together to provide the following guide for how journalists can succeed at their job while being respectful and not causing any unnecessary harm in pursuit of the facts, the truth, or the story.
TEMPOS is the first tool that allows media professionals, public health officials, researchers, and suicide prevention experts to assess adherence to the recommended reporting guidelines with a user-friendly, standardized rating scale. The scale can be used to monitor changes in reporting over time and how reporting varies across articles, authors, and publications.
American Association of Suicidology
Columbia University Department of Psychiatry
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
ConnectSafely.org
New York State Psychiatric Institute
American Psychoanalytic Association
Entertainment Industries Council
The Poynter Institute
Annenberg Public Policy Center
International Association for Suicide Prevention Task Force on Media and Suicide
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Associated Press Managing Editors
Medical University of Vienna
Suicide Awareness Voices of Education
Canterbury Suicide Project – University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand
National Alliance on Mental Illness
Suicide Prevention Resource
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
National Institute of Mental Health
Vibrant Emotional Health
Crisis Text Line
National Press Photographers Association
The Net Safety Collaborative
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