Stakeholders are promising to do more in the area of suicide prevention, especially child suicide, as they have, for the first time, developed a scorecard tool for media reporting on suicide. A stakeholder-consultative meeting also adopted the latest World Health Organization recommendations for media reporting on suicide. According to the WHO, there is a direct correlation between media reports about people who die by suicide and subsequent additional suicidal acts. This, they hope, will go a long way toward positively impacting preventive suicide. According to the World Health Organization, at least 700,000 people die annually due to suicide.
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A Communications and journalism scholar, Professor Daniela Dimitrova, has advised faculty members of the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ) to familiarise themselves with the journals in which they intend to publish their articles before setting out to write the articles.
She said they could start writing quality, lower-tier journals that would not immediately be desk-rejected.
Prof. Dimitrova, who is a full professor at the Iowa State University in the United States, gave the advice when she engaged the faculty of the GIJ on guidelines on writing academic publications at a research forum in Accra yesterday.
Renowned communication and journalism scholar, Professor Daniela Dimitrova last Wednesday, dished out publication advice to faculty at the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ) in a lively research forum on the topic “All you ever wanted to know about research publications”.
The online forum which was organized by the Office of Research at the Ghana Institute of Journalism with support from the school’s management provided an open interaction for faculty at GIJ to learn about the nitty-gritty of scholarly publications as the institution seeks to become a hub for cutting edge research in the area of media and communication studies.
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Communication and journalism scholar, Professor Daniela Dimitrova, last Wednesday, dished out publication advice to the faculty at the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ) at a research forum on the topic: ‘All you ever wanted to know about research publications’.
The online forum, which was organised by the Office of Research at the Ghana Institute of Journalism with support from the school’s management, provided an open interaction for the faculty, to learn about scholarly publications, as the institution seeks to become a hub for cutting-edge research in the area of media and communication studies.
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