ABSTRACT
Dr Sallyanne Duncan is a senior lecturer at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, specialising in journalism ethics. She researches media reporting of trauma, death, bereavement, mental health and suicide. Her PhD was an analysis of press reporting of the ‘death knock.’ She has written a book, Reporting Bad News: Negotiating the Boundaries between Intrusion and Fair Representation in Media Coverage of Death, with Jackie Newton of Liverpool John Moores University. She has also published several journal articles and book chapters on death and trauma and is currently working on a book on ethics for journalists. Additionally, she revised professional guidelines on media reporting of mental health and suicide for the National Union of Journalists, has submitted evidence based on her research to the Leveson Inquiry, and gave evidence to the National Assembly of Wales’s suicide prevention inquiry on media reporting of suicide.
