Ohio Suicide Reporting Guidelines

Jonathan B. Singer, Ph.D., LCSW
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Join your host, Jonathan Singer, to discover the Ohio Suicide Reporting Guidelines - a resource to help you report on suicide safely without compromising your journalistic integrity. The Guidelines are a collaboration between journalists, mental health professionals, and people with lived experience of suicide. For more information and to download the short version, extended version and a checklist of the guidelines, please visit the OhioMHAS website.

Episodes

  1. 04/17/2018

    #8 - The Complete Ohio Suicide Reporting Guidelines Series

    Episode 8 combines the first six episodes into a single file. There is no new information in this episode. The purpose of this episode is to make it easier for you to listen to all of the content from the Ohio Suicide Reporting Guidelines in a single file, rather than moving from episode to episode. We can think of no better way to spend 40 minutes. Ok, maybe we can, but there it is. Thank you for making a difference.

  2. 04/17/2018

    #7 - Suicide Reporting Guidelines in the Real World: Conversation with journalists Nerissa Young and Maiken Scott

    THIS EPISODE IS FORTHCOMING

  3. 04/17/2018

    #6 - Guideline 4: Providing suicide prevention resources

    Welcome to the Ohio Suicide Reporting Guidelines series. In this episode we offer strategies and recommendations to ensure that reporting practices balance the demands facing journalists with public health standards regarding suicide. We focus on the resources that can and should be included in all reporting on suicide. The checklist, brief and extended guidelines can be found on the OhioMHAS website.

  4. 04/17/2018

    #5 - Guideline 3: Using appropriate language

    Welcome to the Ohio Suicide Reporting Guidelines series. In Episode 02, your host, Jonathan Singer, walks you through a 10-point checklist developed from the evidence-based reporting Ohio Suicide Reporting Guidelines. Before submitting your story on a suicide death, ask yourself if you did the 10 items on the checklist. The checklist, brief and extended guidelines can be found on the OhioMHAS website.

  5. 04/17/2018

    #4 - Guideline 2: Framing the story ethically

    Welcome to the Ohio Suicide Reporting Guidelines series. In this episode we offer strategies and recommendations to ensure that reporting practices balance the demands facing journalists with public health standards regarding suicide. We focus how journalists can frame stories to provide hope and limit suicide risk. The checklist, brief and extended guidelines can be found on the OhioMHAS website.

  6. 04/17/2018

    #3 - Guideline 1: Limiting suicide contagion

    Welcome to the Ohio Suicide Reporting Guidelines series. In this episode we introduce the concept of "Limiting suicide contagion" and provide tips and techniques for reporting on suicide death safely. Studies show that certain aspects of suicide reporting can increase rates of suicidal behavior, especially among youth and other vulnerable individuals. This is called “suicide contagion.” Suicide contagion effects are real accounting for up to 5% of all suicides. The checklist, brief and extended guidelines can be found on the OhioMHAS website.

  7. 04/17/2018

    #2 - Ohio suicide reporting checklist

    Welcome to the Ohio Suicide Reporting Guidelines series. In this episode your host, Jonathan Singer, walks you through a 10-point checklist developed from the evidence-based reporting Ohio Suicide Reporting Guidelines. Before submitting your story on a suicide death, ask yourself if you did the 10 items on the checklist. The checklist, brief and extended guidelines can be found on the OhioMHAS website.

  8. 04/17/2018

    #1 - The relationship between media and suicide risk

    Welcome to the Ohio Suicide Reporting Guidelines series. In Episode 01, your host, Jonathan Singer, walks you through the relationship between how you report on suicide and suicide risk. Studies show that certain aspects of suicide reporting can increase rates of suicidal behavior, especially among youth and other vulnerable individuals. The guidelines are not intended to limit press freedom but rather to serve as an evidence-based resource for effective reporting on suicide. They are grounded in the principles of journalism ethics and suicide prevention.

  9. 04/17/2018

    #0 - Overview of the Ohio Suicide Reporting Guidelines series

    Welcome to the Ohio Suicide Reporting Guidelines series. Episode 00 is an overview episode. Your host, Jonathan Singer, walks you through the purpose of the series, what you'll learn in subsequent episodes, and where to find the Ohio Suicide Reporting Guidelines.

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Join your host, Jonathan Singer, to discover the Ohio Suicide Reporting Guidelines - a resource to help you report on suicide safely without compromising your journalistic integrity. The Guidelines are a collaboration between journalists, mental health professionals, and people with lived experience of suicide. For more information and to download the short version, extended version and a checklist of the guidelines, please visit the OhioMHAS website.

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