Our Team

Oronde McClain first came to The Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting as a community journalist participating in our Credible Messenger Reporting Project in early 2022. Soon after, we invited him to join the staff as our first ever Credible Messenger Newsroom Liaison, a role in which he addresses harmful reporting practices and raises the voices of gun violence survivors like himself. Read More

The Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting operates with a core staff of only four but during our first three years has also supported more than 150 community journalists, professional reporting partners, event speakers, workshop and brainstorming session participants, interns and related consultants and contractors who have also played critical roles in our organizational development, outreach and impact. Read More

Jim MacMillan is the founder and director of the Philadelphia the Center for Gun Violence Reporting. The Center is a project of the Initiative for Better Gun Violence Reporting, which he launched in 2019, during his residential fellowship at the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri. Read More

helping to meet their reporting needs, gathering community-produced content and helping to plan and execute improvements to the Credible Messenger Reporting Project. Read More