News coverage of domestic, family, and sexual violence

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Resources for journalists

• Queensland Domestic and Family Violence Media Guide 

• Reporting on violence against women and girls: a handbook for journalists

• Responsible representation and reporting of violence against women and violence against children: Summary guidance for media professionals

• Guidelines on responsible representation and reporting of violence against women and violence against children

•  https://asiapacific.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/pub-pdf/14_dec_guidelines_on_responsible_representation_and_reporting-final.pdf

• How to report on violence against women and their children (Australia)

• How to report on violence against women and their children (Victoria)

• Tips for reporting on violence against women and their children

• Reporting violence against women

• Guidelines for reporting violence against women

• Sources and interviewing

• Survivors in the media

• Your safety and wellbeing

• Out of the Shadows: Reporting on Intimate Partner Violence

• The Basics: What Every Reporter Needs to Know about IPV

• Resources: Reporting on Intimate Partner Violence

• The Legwork: Where to Look, What Questions to Ask

• Tragedies and Journalists

• Reporting on Sexual Violence

• The Story is the Survivor: Reporting on Sexual Assault

• Let's Talk: Personal Boundaries, Safety & Women in Journalism

• Covering Campus Rape and Sexual Assault

• Reporting On Rape and Sexual Violence: A Media Toolkit for Local and National Journalists to Better Media Coverage

• Reporting about Suicide- Mindframe

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Research on media coverage of violence against women

• Media Guidelines for the Responsible Reporting of Violence Against Women: A Review of Evidence and Issues

• Media representations of violence against women and their children: State of knowledge paper

• Chagnon, N. (2014). Heinous crime or acceptable violence? The disparate framing of femicides in Hawai’i. Radical Criminology, 3(3), 13–45.

• Consalvo, M. (1998). “3 Shot dead in courthouse”: Examining news coverage of domestic violence and mail-order brides 12 739. Women’s Studies in Communication, 21(2), 188–211.

• Franiuk, R., Seefelt, J. L., Cepress, S. L., & Vandello, J. A. (2008). Prevalence and effects of rape myths in print journalism: The Kobe Bryant case. Violence Against Women, 14(3), 287–309. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801207313971

• Gillespie, L. K., Richards, T. N., Givens, E. M., & Smith, M. D. (2013). Framing deadly domestic violence: Why the media’s spin matters in newspaper coverage of femicide. Violence Against Women, 19(2), 222–245. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801213476457

• Howe, A. (1997). “The War Against Women” Media Representations of Men’s Violence Against Women in Australia. Violence Against Women, 3(1), 59–75. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801297003001005

• Jiwani, Y., & Young, M. L. (2006). Missing and murdered women: Reproducing marginality in news discourse. Canadian Journal of Communication, 31(4), 895–917.

• Meyers, M. (1996). News Coverage of Violence against Women: Engendering Blame. SAGE Publications.

• Sorenson, S. B., Manz, J. G., & Berk, R. A. (1998). News media coverage and the epidemiology of homicide. American Journal of Public Health, 88(10), 1510–1514.

• Taylor, R. (2009). Slain and slandered: A content analysis of the portrayal of femicide in crime news. Homicide Studies, 13(1), 21–49. https://doi.org/10.1177/1088767908326679

• Wood, J. T. (2001). The normalization of violence in heterosexual romantic relationships: Women’s narratives of love and violence. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 18(2), 239–261.

• Worthington, N. (2008). Progress and persistent problems: Local TV news framing of acquaintance rape on campus. Feminist Media Studies, 8(1), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680770701824878

• Wozniak, J. A., & McCloskey, K. A. (2010). Fact or fiction? Gender issues related to newspaper reports of intimate partner homicide. Violence Against Women, 16(8), 934–952. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801210375977