Welcome to the Ohio Suicide Reporting Guidelines series. In this episode we offer strategies and recommendations to ensure that reporting practices balance the demands facing journalists with public health standards regarding suicide. We focus how journalists can frame stories to provide hope and limit suicide risk. The checklist, brief and extended guidelines can be found on the OhioMHAS website.

#5 - Guideline 3: Using appropriate language

Join your host, Jonathan Singer, to discover the Ohio Suicide Reporting Guidelines - a resource to help you report on suicide safely without compromising your journalistic integrity.  The Guidelines are a collaboration between journalists, mental health professionals, and people with lived experience of suicide. For more information and to download the short version, extended version and a checklist of the guidelines, please visit the OhioMHAS website.