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Mass Shootings, Media and Motive: How Changing Coverage Can Save Lives

by Glynn Greensmith
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781032874296
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
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  • Pages: 280
  • Original Price: GBP 41.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 422 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Media Studies

Media coverage is a hugely significant factor in the rise, frequency, and lethality of mass shootings. After the murder of 16 people at the University of Texas in 1966, the crime of random mass shootings went from an oddity, a rarity, to widespread. What changed? In simple terms: the news did.

This book uses major cultural events in Australia (Port Arthur and Bondi Beach), Scotland (Dunblane), Norway (Oslo), New Zealand (Christchurch), and the US to synthesise 60 years of mass shooting research into the journalism perspective, outlining: the script of coverage, the nature of copycat versus contagion, the typology and lessons from the amok phenomenon, and the relevance of the rise of single-actor terrorism. It outlines the history of mass murder, details the turning points, and brings first-hand accounts from those who have been directly impacted by it, and those who have reported it.

This book outlines changes to reporting guidelines that have been made, and the news editors who made those changes explain exactly why and how they did it. This book details and recommends changes that can be made: recommendations for reporting guidelines that can make a difference, that can unquestionably save lives. How we tell a story matters, and, in the case of mass murder, the journalism perspective is essential.

Change the story, change the crime.

Glynn Greensmith is a senior lecturer in journalism and course coordinator at Curtin University in Western Australia. He spent 18 years with the Australian public broadcaster the ABC. He is a WA Media Award winner and has multiple teaching and media engagement awards.

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