This is no time to celebrate. Gun violence is raging in Philadelphia and many American cities with no end in sight. But today marks one year since launching the Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting, we owe you an update and we are pleased to report that progress is good in terms of hitting our strategic goals, especially while working our way through the pandemic and related challenges. Read More
Up the Block is here to connect people in Philadelphia with information on recovering from shootings, keeping young people safe and holding local leaders accountable. The new site from The Trace levels up an effort that first emerged following the Better Gun Violence Reporting Summit we organized shortly before the pandemic. Read more: Philadelphia journalists respond following a mother’s call to action
The Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting has been created to explore the hypothesis that changing the way journalists and news organizations report on gun violence can prevent shootings and save lives. We propose that empowering people with lived experience will be a critical next step in changing the narrative from law enforcement and criminal justice to more productive perspectives including public health, evidence-based responses and prevention. The secret sauce behind our work includes three groups of people: journalists who report on gun violence locally and nationally, researchers from a broad spectrum of disciplines and community representatives with extensive lived experience. At present we are developing a new journalism network, partnering on new three-year research collaborative and making plans to refine and expand our Credible Messenger Reporting Project. Read More
The Credible Messenger Reporting Project has organized eight teams, most of which are up and running, including several that are close to completing work that will debut soon. We can hardly wait to introduce everyone. Read More
Sheila Hodges was the communications manager at the Center for Gun Violence Reporting during 2021. Sheila reported on the work of our Credible Messenger Reporting Project teams and produced social media content across our reporting channels. Read More
Charlotte Barron was a project manager at the Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting during 2021. Previously, Charlotte worked as a fellow and freelance writer for Student Voices LLC, covering developmental diversity and educational inequality. She also collaborated with the Tennessee branch of Students Leading Change to organize the Chattanooga March For Our Lives and bring sustained student advocacy to the forefront of local firearm policy debates. While at the Center, Charlotte focused on network expansion and collaborating with partners to create a centralized directory of gun violence experts. 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
Complications from the COVID-19 pandemic haven’t been helping and the epidemic of gun violence continues to expand at unprecedented rates but the Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting has continued making steady progress during our first six months. Read More
The Initiative for Better Gun Violence Reporting will create a new Center for Gun Violence Reporting in Philadelphia that focuses on preventing shootings and saving lives by changing the narrative around this public health crisis. Read More
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