Sophia Ward

Preventing suicide is an urgent public health concern and journalists have an important role to play. Suicide is the 11th leading cause of death in the U.S., and 49,476 people died by suicide in 2022, the last year from which data are available.
At the 2024 South by Southwest (SXSW) conference, leaders in media and suicide prevention convened to offer journalists guidance on how to cover suicide in meaningful, impactful and ethical ways.  
The panel, “Preventing Suicide Through Safe Reporting an...

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Actor, humanitarian, and author Ashley Judd became an outspoken advocate for suicide prevention after her beloved mother, Naomi Judd, died by suicide in 2022. Ashley remembers her mother as someone “who put salt and pepper shakers beside each place setting for our family suppers and relished talking about subjects as diverse as paleoanthropology and neuroscience.”

Instead of the full and beautiful life she led, some media coverage focused on invasive and graphic details of Naomi’s death and the