“Rampage shooters crave the spotlight, and we should
do everything we can do to stop them.” 

– Ari N. Schulman, executive editor, New Atlantis

• ARTICLE – WHAT MASS KILLERS WANT — AND HOW TO STOP THEM  by Ari N. Schulman in The Wall Street Journal.
• STUDY – Contagion In Mass Killings and School Shootings. Arizona State University study by Sherry Towers
• STUDY – Visually Reporting Mass Shootings: U.S. Newspaper Photographic Coverage of Three Mass School Shootings by Nicole Smith Dahmen, associate professor at the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon.
• STUDY – Fame-Seeking mass shooters in America: Severity, characteristics, and media coverage.
• WEB – ALERRT Center at Texas State University campaign focuses on the media, “WHAT YOU DO MATTERS.™    It’s simple but effective.  Don’t name them.”
• ARTICLE – FBI ADOPTS “DON’T NAME THEM CAMPAIGN” asks media: Not to name mass shooters.
• ARTICLE – HOW DOES SOMEONE BECOME A SCHOOL SHOOTER? by Emily DeRuy 10/23/15
• RESEARCH ARTICLE – “What we learned from analyzing thousands of stories on the Christchurch shooting,” by Columbia Journalism Review
• LISTEN – HOW THE MEDIA CAN PREVENT MASS SHOOTINGS.  Forensic psychologist Dr. Park Dietz worries the media has encouraged copycats of mass shootings.