Credible Messengers Report
The Credible Messenger Reporting Project supports people who have been personally impacted to report on gun violence from the community perspective, from root causes to lived experiences and possible solutions.
Never Ending Emotions
Credible Messenger community journalist Kimberly Kamara, partnering professional Erin Flynn Jay and video producer Gregory Greer collaborated to produce “Never Ending Emotions,” a series of interviews addressing the emotional rollercoaster of life-changing events following the murder of a family member and discussing possible solutions to gun violence in Philadelphia. Get your tickets now to attend the premiere on Friday, August 20 at The Philadelphia Ethical Society on Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square. (Eventbrite)
Meet the Messengers
A new short documentary called “The Path Forward” shares a conversation among four mothers who lost sons to gun violence in Philadelphia, sharing intimate experiences from first getting the news to learning how to survive. This is the second production made possible with support from the Credible Messenger Reporting Project and debuts in a time when gun violence has been rising steeply in the city for the second year in a row. Read More
Meet the team behind this first production from the Credible Messenger Reporting Project; three co-victims of gun violence who worked together to show the long-lasting effects it can have on friends, family and community members. Read More
A crowd of community members gathered Sunday to watch the in-person premier of the short documentary “The Lasting Impact: The Emotional Scars Gun Violence Leaves Behind,” which centers around the stories of three co-victims of gun violence who worked together to show the long-lasting effects loss can have on friends, family and community members. Read More
Research at the Center
(PHILADELPHIA) –The Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting and the Stoneleigh Foundation today named Dr. Jessica H. Beard, a trauma surgeon at Temple University Hospital and public health researcher at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, as a Stoneleigh Fellow and the Center’s director of research effective July 1. Read More
Better Gun Violence Reporting Resources
Philadelphia gun violence data
Inside the Center
If you find this idea as inspiring as we do and have time to discuss our approach and advise us on next steps, we would love to know what you think. Read More
The latest event in Community College of Philadelphia’s “Enough is Enough” teach-in series was “Gun Violence: A Public Health Crisis in Philadelphia,” held on June 15, 2021. The event was hosted by CCP President Dr. Donald Guy Generals and moderated by PCGVR Research Director and Stoneleigh Fellow Dr. Jessica Beard. We are grateful to the esteemed panelists for an engaging discussion, including Dr. Ruth Abaya, Stoneleigh Fellow and co-chair of the Philadelphia Roadmap to Safer Communities, Philadelphia City Councilmember Jamie Gauthier, CBS3 managing editor Manuel Smith, Mothers in Charge Founder Dr. Dorothy Johnson-Speight and CCP Visiting Lecturer and Diversity Fellow Malika Rahman. Read More
