BBC Stories - ‘The Instagram Suicide Network’

Documentary

Role: Editor, Colour Grade

Credits

Reporter: Catrin Nye

Producer: Ed Main

Camera: Sebastien Rabas

Picture Editor: Paul Bryan

Edit Producer: Catrin Nye

Editor: Liz Gibbons

NRK Team: Annemarie Moland, Ruben Solvang, Even Kjolleberg, Ståle Hansen

**Warning: Contains graphic content** An investigation based on the phone of a 17-year-old teenager who killed herself has revealed the shocking scale of self-harm and suicide material being shared across networks of private Instagram accounts. The BBC has been able to see inside the mobile of the Norwegian teen - who live posted her suicide on Instagram. New analysis by a team of Norwegian journalists at NRK has revealed that she was linked to another 1000 accounts all posting similar dangerous content - around half of them in English. At least another 14 girls in the same Instagram network have also taken their own lives. Catrin Nye has this special investigation.

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