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Pity the families devastated by having a loved one go missing, who are then traumatised by the press | Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff

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BBC documentary The Search for Nicola Bulley is unflinching in its exposure of her family's grief.

Charity Missing People launched new media guidelines to help find a missing person.

Charity set out best practice around disclosing private information about missing individuals and not speculating on why they might have gone missing.

As many as 170,000 people go missing in the UK each year .

There is limited evidence to suggest that media attention, excessive or otherwise, can lead to a positive outcome in missing-person cases.

It is in the public interest that journalists continue to tell these stories, says Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff .

Bulley ’s disappearance has become a case study in what not to do for the media, the police and those who create or consume content around missing people.