Mental health charities and senior journalists took to social media to urge newspapers to think carefully about how they report suicides, after the Daily Telegraph published a story concerning the death of two employees at News UK, the publisher of the Times and the Sun.
On Twitter and various online forums, people pointedly shared Samaritans’ media guidelines. The front page of the Daily Telegraph reported that News UK had “launched an internal investigation after two members of its commercial department took their own lives within weeks of one another amid fears that staff are being put under unreasonable pressure to hit targets”.
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