Recommendations for reporting on mass shootings – Suicide Prevention Resource Center

2017

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Guidelines/Recommendations

SAVE with experts from AFSP, the CDC, Columbia University, IASP Media Task Force, JED, NAMI-NH, SPRC and the media industry.

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These recommendations address how media can safely cover an incident where a person (or a small group) shoots multiple others in a public setting. The tragedies at Columbine, Virginia Tech, Aurora and Orlando are examples of mass shootings. These recommendations are not intended to address gang violence or murder suicide (i.e. intimate partner violence).