The Recommendations for Reporting on Suicide were developed by leading experts in suicide prevention and in collaboration with several international suicide prevention and public health organizations, schools of journalism, media organizations and key journalists as well as Internet safety experts. The recommendations are based on more than 50 international studies on suicide contagion.

Lead Partners:
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Annenberg Public Policy Center
Columbia University Department of Psychiatry
National Alliance on Mental Illness, New Hampshire
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Suicide Awareness Voices of Education 

Developed in Collaboration with:

Suicide Prevention and Public Health Organizations
American Association of Suicidology
Canterbury Suicide Project – University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
International Association for Suicide Prevention Task Force on Media & Suicide
Medical University of Vienna
National Institute of Mental Health
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
Suicide Prevention Resource Center
UCLA School of Public Health, Community Health Services
Universityof Melbourne

Schools of Journalism, Media Organizations and Journalists
The Ad Council
Freelance Writer, Editor – Irene Saunders Goldstein
Minnesota Star Tribune – Jackie Crosby and Kate Parry, reporters
Poynter Institute
SeattleTimes – Melissa Allen, reporter

Internet Safety Organizations
ConnectSafely.org
Emotion Technology