TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - Quality of media reporting following a celebrity suicide in India
JO  - Journal of public health (Oxford)
A1  - Menon, Vikas
A1  - Kar, Sujita Kumar
A1  - Varadharajan, Natarajan
A1  - Kaliamoorthy, Charanya
A1  - Pattnaik, Jigyansa Ipsita
A1  - Sharma, Ginni
A1  - Mukherjee, Srijeeta
A1  - Shirahatti, Nikhilesh B.
A1  - Ransing, Ramdas
A1  - Padhy, Susanta Kumar
A1  - Arafat, S. M. Yasir
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - BACKGROUND: Celebrity suicides have the potential to trigger suicide contagion, particularly when media reporting is detailed and imbalanced. We aimed to assess the quality of media reporting of suicide of a popular Indian entertainment celebrity against the World Health Organization (WHO) suicide reporting guidelines.     METHODS: Relevant news articles that reported the actor's suicide were retrieved from online news portals of regional and English language newspapers and television channels in the immediate week following the event. Deductive content analysis of these articles was done using a pre-designed data extraction form.     RESULTS: A total of 573 news articles were analyzed. Several breaches of reporting were noted in relation to mentioning the word 'celebrity' in the title of report (14.7%), inclusion of the deceased's photograph (88.5%), detailed descriptions of the method (50.4%) and location of suicide (70.6%); local language newspapers were more culpable than English newspapers. Helpful reporting characteristics such as mentioning warning signs (4.1%), including educational information (2.7%) and suicide support line details (14.0%) were rarely practiced.     CONCLUSION: Media reporting of celebrity suicide in India is imbalanced and poorly adherent to suicide reporting recommendations. Local language news reports display more frequent and serious violations in reporting as opposed to English news articles.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1741-3842
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdaa161
ID  - ref1
ER  -