Communicating Risk: Journalistic news values, and medical, health professional and lay discourses on suicide and mental illness.

报道自杀和精神健康/疾病问题的传统新闻做法受到各种群体的强烈挑战，包括医疗/卫生专业人员和被诊断患有精神疾病的人。该项目通过深入访谈、焦点小组和媒体分析，调查了媒体、新闻、医学、卫生专业人士和有关这些问题的非专业人士之间不断变化的动态和激烈竞争的相互作用。媒体如何给事件和人物贴上标签，不同的受众又如何解读和管理这些信息？主要成果包括从理论上了解主要利益攸关方的立场，以及为政府和卫生专业人员规划传播战略提供政策咨询。

Traditional journalistic practices in reporting suicide and mental health/illness issues are under strong challenge from a variety of groups, including medical/health professionals, and people diagnosed with mental illness. The project investigates the changing dynamics and hotly contested interplay between media, journalistic, medical, health professional and lay discourses about these issues, using in-depth interviews, focus groups and media analyses. How do media label events and people, and how do various audiences interpret and manage this information? Key outcomes include theoretically informed understandings of the positions of key stakeholders and policy advice for government and health professionals in planning communication strategies.