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Reporting femicide-suicide in the news: The current utilization of suicide reporting guidelines and recommendations for the future
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North America
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News articles often failed to include relevant statistics, provide information for national or local resources, use suicide and/or domestic violence experts as sources, and as a consequence failed to frame femicide-suicides within the greater social issue of domestic violence. When addressing causality, approximately two thirds of newspaper articles oversimplified the femicide-suicide event by attributing it to a specific singular cause or as unexplainable. This finding mirrors research on femicide reporting broadly, which indicates that the majority of news stories do not properly contextualize incidents of domestic violence (Gillespie et al. 2013; Richards et al. 2014).