- Title
- Researching and reporting on suicide or mental illness: a student perspective
- Creator
- Romeo, Michael; Green, Kerry; Skehan, Jaelea; Visser, Amy; Coan, Lyndall; Hazell, Trevor
- Relation
- Australian Journalism Review Vol. 30, Issue 1, p. 123-130
- Relation
- http://www.jea.org.au/journal.htm
- Publisher
- Journalism Education Association
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2008
- Description
- The Response Ability project for journalism education aims to support the responsible and accurate reporting of mental health issues via tertimy curricula. The aim is to produce graduates in journalism and communications who are aware of, and able to respond to, issues relating to suicide and mental illness in their professional work. One of the many strategies to increase uptake of the Response Ability resources in Australian universities is the sponsorship of an award for mental health reporting as part ofthe Journalism Education Association of Australia 50 annual Ossie Awards. Between 2005 and 2007, 22 Ossie Award entrants from seven campuses were interviewed to assess their methods of research and key learning outcomes. It is clear from the interviews that journalism academics generally take an active interest in supporting journalism students to report on mental health and suicide. While students appear to have an awareness ofthe need to be sensitive when researching and writing publications that cover suicide and mental illness, the results of this study suggest they have less specific awareness of the guidelines which Response Ability promotes, especially those related to the reporting of mental illness.
- Subject
- journalism education; mental health; suicide; sponsorship
- Identifier
- uon:5547
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/43434
- Identifier
- ISSN:0810-2686
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