Depression, Medication, Acne and Suicide: A case study in the reporting and portrayal of suicide in Australia's metropolitan press.

Kate Holland, Warwick Blood, Jane Pirkis, Graham Martin

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    Abstract

    This paper examines the framing of a health risk in Australian metropolitan newspapers using a case study of the reporting of a coroner’s court findings about the possible links between a teenager’s suicide, depression, and the acne prescription drug, Roaccutane. The paper focuses on a Sydney coroner’s court inquest into the suicide death of 14-year-old Vivian Crane. The findings were reported in the metropolitan press in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane in October 2004. This paper investigates the interaction between news values and news frames in the reporting and portrayal of these findings and identifies some of the ways in which news outlets privileged certain news frames over others and, therefore, presented certain risks to the public at the expense of others.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2005 Journalism Education Association Conference
    EditorsStephen Stockwell, Ben Isakhan
    Place of PublicationQueensland
    PublisherSchool of Arts, Griffith University
    Pages1-14
    Number of pages14
    ISBN (Print)1920952551
    Publication statusPublished - 2005
    EventJournalism Education Association Conference - Surfers Paradise, Australia
    Duration: 29 Nov 20052 Dec 2005

    Conference

    ConferenceJournalism Education Association Conference
    Country/TerritoryAustralia
    CitySurfers Paradise
    Period29/11/052/12/05

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