Resources to Know: 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline A free, 24/7 confidential service that can provide anyone in suicidal crisis or emotional distress, or those around them, with support, information, and local resources. More Information The Veterans Crisis Line and Military Crisis LineDial 988 then Press 1 The Veterans Crisis Line and Military Crisis Line … Continued
Poynter offers a free online course to advance reporters’ understanding about responsible coverage of mental health conditions and suicide.
This site offers guidance for bloggers to safely write about suicide. Blogs can be an important source of support for people going through a difficult time.
This site provides recommendations for media outlets to responsibly cover a shooting of more than one person in a public setting.
Cisco and SAVE have created an AI detection tool to screen adherence to the best practice recommendations. It is a free, open-source app just for journalists.
Experts in the death, dying, and grief space have come together to provide the following guide for how journalists can succeed at their job while being respectful and not causing any unnecessary harm in pursuit of the facts, the truth, or the story.
TEMPOS is the first tool that allows media professionals, public health officials, researchers, and suicide prevention experts to assess adherence to the recommended reporting guidelines with a user-friendly, standardized rating scale. The scale can be used to monitor changes in reporting over time and how reporting varies across articles, authors, and publications.