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A Call to the Media to Change Reporting Practices for the Coverage of Mass Shootings

Year: 2019

Type: article

Abstract: This article considers how a more responsible form of media coverage of mass shootings could help to reduce the occurrence of these events. It begins by exploring evidence of a contagion effect, as well as the presence of copycat shootings, that result from the media coverage of these attacks. The article then assesses media coverage in light of the World Health Organization’s recommendations for coverage of a related phenomenon, suicide. The article argues for a shift of journalistic practices moving forward in an effort to help reduce the occurrence of mass shootings in the United States.

Source: Open Scholarship Institutional Repository (Washington University in St. Louis)

Author: Jaclyn Schildkraut

Language: English

Topic: Gun Ownership and Violence Research

Subfield: Health

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funders: State University of New York, Rockefeller University

OpenAlex ID: W2987875133

FWCI: 1.539

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Cited by: 12

Related to: 10