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WHO: Preventing suicide: a resource for media professionals, update 2023 Element

WHO: Preventing suicide: a resource for media professionals, update 2023

This guidance for media professionals and students includes at-a-glance and detailed do’s and don’ts. Appendices provide additional direction for online, digital and social media; reporting on mass killings and homicidal bombings; research on the media’s impact on suicide; as well as suicide myths and facts.

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