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
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
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
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
We’re feeing honored to find our staffers and colleagues named among the Most Influential Philadelphians of 2023 by Philadelphia Magazine. We’ll put this recognition to work.
We had an opportunity to present our work to the Firearm Injury Prevention Institute at the University of Colorado.
January: New research, media coverage, outreach and more Our first study was published: “Like I’m a nobody:” firearm-injured peoples’ perspectives on news media reporting about firearm violence was led by our director of research Dr. Jessica Beard, Read More
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
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
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.
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
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• 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.
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