The Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting

The Survivor Connection database will enable journalists to connect with hundreds of community members with lived experience of gun violence.

The appointment comes as PCGVR, founded in 2020 as a local journalism support organization to advance gun violence prevention reporting, expands its programs — and reach — across the United States.

The findings are important because community gun violence disproportionately harms people from marginalized racial groups, and news reporting on gun violence can further exacerbate these harms.