PCGVR Survivor Connection Director Oronde McClain was recognized with the Billies Award for Inspiration last week, from our friends and partners at Billy Penn at WHYY.
We collaborate with Billy Penn each week to produce and share this Weekly Brief, and both Billy Penn and WHYY have generously reported on our work on many occasions:
- From trauma to teaching: Philly gun violence survivors are rewriting how gun violence gets covered | Billy Penn, November 7, 2025.
- How Philly became ground zero for rethinking gun violence reporting | Billy Penn, November 6, 2025.
- 2 Philadelphia researchers concerned with losing federal dollars for gun violence prevention | WHYY, April 15, 2025.
- Survivor Connection: A new tool linking journalists to Philly gun violence survivors | WHYY, March 20, 2025.
- Temple Health trauma surgeon receives federal grant to study media coverage of gun violence | WHYY, December 6, 2023.
- Amid gun violence crisis, Philadelphia may be safer than people think | Billy Penn, September 10, 2023.
- ‘Like I’m a nobody’: Breaking news coverage of shootings is dehumanizing and delays progress, per new Temple study | Billy Penn, January 10, 2023.
- Can journalism that centers community help stop shootings? PCGVR is betting on it | Billy Penn, November 28, 2022.
- How local news can help heal Philly’s gun violence crisis without harming communities | Billy Penn, October 5, 2022.
- ‘Love them, lead them’: Advocates say parents play a major role in stopping youth gun violence | WHYY, May 26, 2022.
- Fewer police stats, more community engagement sought at Philly gun violence briefings | WHYY, April 13, 2022.
- Stop doing ‘breaking news’ for more accurate gun violence coverage, panel says | Billy Penn, April 4, 2022.
- Humanity behind the headlines: Black men on surviving in Philly | WHYY, February 24, 2022.
- ‘This is unprecedented’: Study finds link between COVID lockdowns and shootings in Philly | WHYY, February 11, 2021.
- Gun violence and community trauma in the Covid-19 pandemic | WHYY, July 29, 2021.
- Here’s a list of resources to include when reporting on gun violence in Philly | Billy Penn, November 13, 2019.
- This new tool can help you understand Philly’s gun violence crisis | Billy Penn, November 9, 2019.
- Philly sees the equivalent of a mass shooting every 3 months | Billy Penn, April 10, 2019.
- This journalist will spend a year creating guidelines for America’s gun violence reporting | Billy Penn, April 2, 2019.
WHYY also hosted our inaugural Better Gun Violence Reporting Summit in 2019.