Insensitive Suicide Reporting Prompts Nuj Rules Reform

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CONCERNS over recent press coverage of deaths have forced the Scottish Executive to join with the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) in reintroducing guidelines on the reporting of suicide in the media.

An amended version of previous guidelines is being printed amid concerns that "copycat" suicidal behaviour can arise as a result of insensitive or over-sensationalised reporting.

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Insensitive Suicide Reporting Prompts Nuj Rules Reform

Campaigners have welcomed the move, pointing out that the reporting of two deaths by suicide in Livingston in the last 10 days has seen every element of the guidelines "breache...

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