News Clippings Offer Intriguing Injury Prevention Possibilities

Stallones, Lorann; Gunderson, Paul

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“…However, there was a lack of detail, and description of specific prevention strategies provided by the expert sources. This is consistent with findings which suggest that newspaper articles reporting drowning of children and adults often focus on demographics and location and, whilst newspapers provide a timely and graphic description of drowning events, prevention messages are limited or missing entirely . This may in part be due to lay‐out, editorial decisions and word count restrictions (articles in this study were on average only 355 words).…”

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“…Newspapers have the power to inform and educate the public . They provide an inexpensive means to provide health information capable of influencing the public and professionals to respond to injury prevention . By providing information about injury risk and the benefit of taking preventative measures, newspapers could be pivotal in bringing about a shift in community attitudes towards drowning and ultimately social change .…”

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“A content analysis of news media coverage of drowning events in Western Australia over two summers, 2014‐2016”

Leavy

Jancey

Hall

et al. 2019

Health Prom J of Aust

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Issue addressed Drowning is a leading cause of death globally. Opportunities to promote drowning prevention in news media may be overlooked for attention‐grabbing headlines, imagery and narrative. This study examines news media coverage of fatal drowning events in Western Australia (WA). Methods Coronial fatal drowning data in WA were extracted for two summer time periods (2014‐2016) by date, age, gender, location and description. Corresponding print and online news articles were captured using: (i) Media Alert; (ii) Google News; (iii) Factiva. A content and frame analysis protocol was developed. A qualitative approach was taken to analyse the news angle. A subgroup analysis was undertaken for drowning focused articles. Results The final sample (n = 50) news articles matched 17 individual drowning events (T1, n = 9; T2, n = 8). Drowning stories rarely appeared on page 1 (n = 2), but were located in the first 2‐10 pages (n = 20) (66.6%). In the subanalysis, one‐fifth (22%) of the articles employed a news angle relating to community spirit and celebration of life. There were 32 mentions of “who was responsible for the drowning event.” Environmental factors were most cited for “what was responsible” (20.4%). Experts were cited in 66.7% of articles and drowning prevention strategies were mentioned in nine of the 50 articles. Conclusion Drowning was considered newsworthy; however, not the front page news. Reporting infrequently prioritised drowning prevention or discussed prevention strategies. So what? Working closely with news outlets to embed drowning prevention messages in news stories during high‐risk periods such as summer is an imperative.

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“A content analysis of news media coverage of drowning events in Western Australia over two summers, 2014‐2016”

Leavy

Jancey

Hall

et al. 2019

Health Prom J of Aust

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“…In the current article, we examine what might be learned about defensive gun use, not from surveys, but from news reports. News reports have a long history of being used in injury prevention as an adjunct to other data sources (Sacks et al 1992; Rainey and Runyan 1992 ; Stallones and Gunderson 2008 ; Marlenga et al 2017 ). Our data source is the Gun Violence Archive (GVA 2021 ).…”

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Defensive gun use: What can we learn from news reports?

2022

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Background In the past decade, most people who buy and own guns are doing so for self-defense. Yet little is known about actual defensive gun use in the USA. Methods To discover what information newspaper articles and local news reports might add, we read the news reports of defensive use incidents assembled by the Gun Violence Archive. We examined a sample of more than a quarter of the incidents from 2019, the last year before the pandemic. We examined all cases from four months—January, April, July, and October. We created a typology of defensive gun use incidents. Results Of 418 incidents, in about half, the perpetrator was armed with a firearm. In almost 90% of the cases, the victim fired their firearm—315 perpetrators were shot and about half of them died. The average number of perpetrators shot per incident was 0.75; the average number of victims shot was 0.25. We estimate that in 2019 fewer than 600 potential perpetrators were killed in defensive gun use incidents that made the news. Among the thirteen categories of shooting were drug-related (4% of incidents), gang-like combat (6%), romantic partner disputes (11%), escalating arguments (13%), store robberies (9%), street robberies (5%), unoccupied vehicle theft (5%), unarmed burglaries (7%), home invasions (20%), and miscellaneous (6%). Conclusion We believe the Gun Violence Archive dataset includes the large majority of news reports of defensive gun use—and especially those in which the perpetrator is shot and dies. Some of the strengths of using news reports as a data source are that we can be certain that the incident occurred, and the reports provide us with a story behind the incident, one usually vetted in part by the police with occasional input from the victims, perpetrator, family, witnesses, or neighbors. Defensive gun use situations are quite diverse, and among the various categories of defensive gun use, a higher percentage of incidents in some of the categories seemed far less likely to be socially beneficial (e.g., drug-related, gang-like, escalating arguments) than in others (e.g., home invasions).

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News Clippings Offer Intriguing Injury Prevention Possibilities

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“A content analysis of news media coverage of drowning events in Western Australia over two summers, 2014‐2016”

“A content analysis of news media coverage of drowning events in Western Australia over two summers, 2014‐2016”

Defensive gun use: What can we learn from news reports?

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