The Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting 
Nearly 100 of our favorite people from the journalism, research, funder and survivor communities joined us in Center City Philadelphia on July 23, 2025 for Five Years of Impact, to reflect on everything we have accomplished together since launching PCGVR in 2020. Photographs by Erin Blewett for PCGVR. Visit: impact.pcgvr.org
We set out to produce our multimedia 5-Year Impact Report for obvious reasons: to recognize what has been working, to encourage continuing support and hopefully find more. At the same, we seem to have accidentally written the book on how to launch a journalism support organization that actually makes a difference. Visit: impact.pcgvr.org It’s a … Read more
You can start planning now to join us in Philadelphia this fall for our first in-person national conference since before the pandemic. We are scaling up our Gun Violence Prevention Reporter Certification Workshop with a Wednesday evening reception, plus a day-and-a-half of programming, meals and networking — as recommended by those who have attended our local workshops — … Read more
As we examine our impact during the first five years at PCGVR, there are lots of things we can count having done. But are we making things happen? We have certainly been there at a few important turning points. The first outcome came early: Several Philadelphia news organizations added resources for the gun violence survivor community to their web … Read more
This month marks five years since we launched The Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting.
Today marks five years since we launched the Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting.
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