@article{ref1,
title=""We Don't Cover Suicide … (Except When We Do Cover Suicide)": A case study in the production of news",
journal="Journalism studies",
year="2018",
author="Beam, R.A. and John, S.L. and Yaqub, M.M.",
volume="19",
number="10",
pages="1447-1465",
abstract="Unlike many other unnatural deaths, suicides are occurrences that journalists often hesitate to cover. &quot;Our policy is not to write about suicides,&quot; many journalists say. Except that often they do. This article, based on interviews with 50 US journalists, examines the rationales that journalists invoke as they decide whether to cover a suicide. This can be a high-risk decision because of the potential for suicide contagion and copycat effects. We conclude that in making a decision to cover a suicide, journalists go through a process of routinizing what, at the outset, they had considered an exceptional situation. This routinization provides a means to rationalize covering a death that they often say they would prefer to ignore. © 2017, © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1461-670X",
doi="10.1080/1461670X.2017.1279563",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2017.1279563"
}