CDC webinar hosting PCGVR team

December 24, 2024

PCGVR director of research Dr. Jessica Beard and newsroom liaison Oronde McClain will participate in Building Community Resiliency Through Storytelling and Media Narratives, a webinar presented by the CDC’s Division of Violence Prevention on January 15 at 2 PM ET. Read More

Giving thanks, 2024

November 28, 2024

We have much to be thankful for this year and many people to thank: our staff and consultants, community journalists and professional partners, funders and donors and all of the stakeholders who elevate our work and who make it all possible. And while reducing the number of people shot in Philadelphia to 1,093 during the past 365 days is hardly an occasion to celebrate, we also feel thankful to everyone working on gun violence prevention and for the sharp downward trend now heading into its third year. Read More

Coming soon: The Survivor Connection

November 7, 2024

When our latest project launches early in the new year, Philadelphia journalists will have free and swift mobile access to a new directory of community-based expert sources including gun violence survivors, co-victims and other impacted individuals. People with lived experience will have access to paid training in trauma, media literacy and public health, and an invitation post a profile in the community expert directory. And news consumers will be better informed when more reporting includes more community-based expertise. Read More

American University hosts screening and panel

February 15, 2024

The School of Communication at American University in Washington hosted a screening of The Second Trauma, followed by a panel discussion with Logan Center director Yvonne Latty Oronde McClain of the Philadelphia Center for Gun Read More

PCGVR research director leading new NIH grant

December 1, 2023

A new two-year, $450,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health builds on previous research from PCGVR research director Dr. Jessica Beard, pictured at top, right above during a meeting of our research collaborative in 2022. She Read More

Incredible August at PCGVR

September 2, 2023

We had an incredible August at PCGVR, making the case for better gun violence reporting on panels at three national conference, culminating here last week when the Online News Association (ONA) Conference convened here in Philadelphia. Our Read More

This week in Chicago: Meeting with health care journalists

October 13, 2022

Dr. Jesscia Beard, director of research here at the Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting, will be a featured speaker this week at Reporting on Violence as a Public Health Issue: An AHCJ Summit. The workshop organized by the Association of Health Care Journalists will also feature WHYY gun violence prevention reporter Sammy Caiola as well as Yvonne Latty, who directs the new Logan Center for Urban Investigative Reporting at Temple University, and PCGVR director Jim MacMillan. Non-Member Virtual Tickets are still available.

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Expanding our team and our services

July 5, 2022

The Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting is delighted to report that Oronde McClain has joined the staff as our first Credible Messenger Newsroom Liaison, Shannon Hodges is joining us as a Podcast Producer this summer to promote the interviews conducted by our Community Engagement Manager Maxayn Gooden, and as we announced recently, Maria Mitri is joining us this summer and has been helping us organize our content and operations. Read More

Make a Difference: Support the Center

July 2, 2022

Thank you for making your way to the bottom of our home page. Your attention and concern mean the world.

• We launched The Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting two years ago to explore the hypothesis that changing the way journalists and news organizations report on gun violence could prevent shootings and save lives.

• We organized a community reporting project to shift power to people with lived expertise, a professional development program to support journalists already covering gun violence and a research collaborative which has been refining our focus by identifying harmful reporting practices and asking what the ideal, most ethical and impactful reporting on gun violence might look like.

• Now we are focused on implementing what we have learned, synthesizing our programs for maximum impact and sustaining the Center for years to come. We are proud of our progress and but the gun violence crisis only worsens and we need your help. Please consider making a recurring tax-deductible contribution today. Please visit: ibgvr.wedid.it

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Behind the scenes: Tyler Campbell on community reporting

February 25, 2022

Community journalist Tyler Campbell planned, managed, reported and wrote the latest work produced with support from our Credible Messenger Reporting Project. Sammy Caiola, who recently joined WHYY in the new role of gun violence prevention reporter, interviewed Tyler. Read More

Maxayn Gooden, Community Engagement Manager

January 27, 2022

Maxayn Gooden is Community Engagement Manager for the Credible Messenger Reporting Project. Her work includes communicating with past, present and future community journalists, 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

Join the conversation

January 14, 2022

We are very grateful to the network of community representatives, journalists, clinicians, researchers, officials and other collaborators who have supported our work in recent years and now we have opened our space on Slack as an avenue for daily discussions, to share opportunities, keep you updated on news from the Center and enhance our relationships. We hope this effort attracts new friends too. Please join us! Read More

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