How should the media present suicide? Are there guidelines & are there risks of glamorising celebrity suicide?
The Project – domestic violence (interview)
The Project (Channel 10, Australia) on domestic violence following the death of Luke Batty.
The Project – Is teenage angst disappearing?
The Project (ATV 10) interview on whether the unhappy teenager is a thing of the past. 22/7/2013
The Project – violent women
The Project (ATV 10) interview on whether more females are engaging in violent activities. 20 June 2013
ABC TV News 2012 – increasing death rates in over Christmas
Live interview about why there are higher rates of certain deaths over the Christmas period.
Coping with disaster coverage
By Simon Leo Brown Fires, floods, cyclones, earthquakes… natural disaster seems to dominate our daily news like never before.http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2011/03/17/3166744.htm Massive, mesmerising, unfathomable events are presented live on our living room widescreens. Some people are using social media services to accuse news organisations of peddling in ‘disaster porn’, while others use the same medium to compulsively…