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Reporting suicide Evidence suggests that media reporting of suicide can influence others who are suicidal or mentally fragile to take their own lives.
Reporting of suicide is another sensitive subject.
A new clause has been inserted on the reporting of suicide.
"There is extensive research that demonstrates that inappropriate portrayal, or reporting, of suicide can lead to imitative or 'copycat' behaviour among vulnerable people," adds Kirby-Rider.
Other changes to the code included strengthening the clauses on the reporting of suicide, discrimination, complaints resolution and the public interest.
Lorna Fraser, the Samaritan's media adviser on the reporting of suicide, said coverage of Saldanha's death so far had been "fairly responsible" – but warned that the mass coverage could have a detrimental impact on vulnerable people.
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It is no wonder that the Samaritans were moved to remind newspapers of the guidelines for the reporting of suicides.
While reporting of suicides is not always consistent around the country, the current numbers are, if anything, too low.
Recent reporting of suicides, a corrosive debate on abortion rights and transparent attempts to stifle political criticism have been fused into a full-throated moral panic over social media.
Indeed, this assumption has led to the establishment of guidelines and safeguards concerning the reporting of suicides in the media [11], [23].
As police reporting is same all over Pakistan, the under reporting of suicides in official statistics could easily be generalized for other middle-sized cities in Pakistan, most of them being situated in Punjab.
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