Sue Lockett John

Biographic Data

ID4394474
NAMESue Lockett John
GIVEN NAMESSue Lockett
FAMILY NAMEJohn
SIGNATUREJOHN S L
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Washington
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS45
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX3

  • “We Don’t Cover Suicide … (Except When We Do Cover Suicide)”

    Randal A Beam, Sue Lockett John et al.ARTICLEJournalism Studies2017

    Unlike many other unnatural deaths, suicides are occurrences that journalists often hesitate to cover. “Our policy is not to write about suicides,” many journalists say. Except that often they do. This article, based on interviews with 50 US journalists, examines the rationales that journalists invoke as they decide whether to cover a suicide. This can be a high-risk decision because of the potential for suicide contagion and copycat effects. We …

  • We report the world as it is, not as we want it to be

    Open AccessMichael Mead Yaqub, Randal A Beam et al.ARTICLEJournalism2017Cited by: 4References: 6

    Media coverage of suicide can play a pivotal role in raising public awareness of an important public health issue. But research suggests that reporting on suicide can potentially trigger suicidal behavior in vulnerable individuals. To encourage the responsible reporting of suicide as a public health issue, media recommendations have been developed. Based on interviews with 50 US journalists, this study explores journalists’ awareness of and attit…

  • Going Public, Crisis after Crisis

    Sue Lockett John, David Domke et al.ARTICLERhetoric and Public Affairs2007Cited by: 12References: 19

    Political leaders craft public communications in a strategic manner and attempt to use mass media as a political resource. With this in mind, we argue that during summer and autumn 2002 President George W. Bush extended the September 11 crisis through emphasis in public communications on internal "homeland" security and an external "war on terror"—discourses into which Iraq was carefully inserted over time. These strategic communications allowed …

  • Going Public as Political Strategy

    David Domke, Erica S Graham et al.ARTICLEPolitical Communication2006Cited by: 29References: 32

    Research suggests that political elites excel at controlling political and media information environments, particularly in times of national crisis, such as the events and aftermath of September 11. This study examines the creation and passage of the Patriot Act, which was proposed by the Bush administration following the terrorist attacks and quickly passed with strong support by the U.S. Congress. We argue that (a) the public communications of …

  • No Shades of Gray

    Open AccessKevin Coe, David Domke et al.ARTICLEJournal of Communication2004

    Binary communications represent the world as a place of polar opposites. Such conceptions of reality, although not uncommon in Western thought, take on a heightened importance when political leaders employ them in a concerted, strategic discourse in a mass media environment. With this in mind, this research offers a conception of binary discourse and uses this as a foundation to examine (a) the use of binaries by U.S. President George W. Bush in …