Best Practices for Reporting on Community Gun Violence
This guide has been informed primarily by collective wisdom of those who participated in the Better Gun Violence Reporting Summit in Philadelphia. Read More
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The Better Gun Violence Reporting Summit
The inaugural Better Gun Violence Reporting Summit focused on media coverage of community gun violence and took place at WHYY in Philadelphia on November 8, 2019. Read More
Community Conversations and Speed Networking
Fifteen Philadelphia-based journalists were invited to spend a day with 30 residents from the core communities impacted by gun violence in the city, most of whom had lost several loved ones. The gathering was convened by The Initiative for Better Gun Violence Reporting in a first step toward informing a new set of best practices for journalists covering the issue and exploring the impact of news coverage on levels of violence. Read More
Welcome to the Center
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
Credible Messenger Reporting Project update: June 2020
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
Dr. Jessica H. Beard named Stoneleigh fellow and PCGVR’s Director of Research
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 1, 2021 DR. JESSICA H. BEARD NAMED STONELEIGH FELLOW AND CENTER’S DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH Support from Stoneleigh Foundation to Help Center Advance Mission of Saving Lives (PHILADELPHIA) –The Philadelphia Center for Read More
Press release: Dr. Jessica H. Beard named Stoneleigh Fellow and Center’s Director or Research
(PHILADELPHIA) –The Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting and the Stoneleigh Foundation today named Dr. Jessica H. Beard, a trauma surgeon at Temple University Hospital and public health researcher at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, as a Stoneleigh Fellow and the Center’s director of research effective July 1. Read More
Sheila Hodges, Communications Manager
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
Reconsidering how guns and gun deaths are covered by the press in America
Dr. Jessica Beard represented the Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting alongside some of the nation’s leading leading news organizations during the recent Gun Violence New Summit organized by the Columbia Journalism Review. (Watch the complete event video.)
Dr. Jessica Beard to City Council: “Help Philadelphians understand the public health context, root causes, and solutions for gun violence.”
Trauma surgeon and public health researcher Dr. Jessica H. Beard, MD, MPH, FACS, addressed the Philadelphia City Council Special Committee on Gun Violence Prevention on Tuesday, March 30, 2021 Read More
Dr. Jessica Beard to City Council: “Help Philadelphians understand the public health context, root causes, and solutions for gun violence.”
Trauma surgeon and public health researcher Dr. Jessica H. Beard, MD, MPH, FACS, addressed the Philadelphia City Council Special Committee on Gun Violence Prevention on Tuesday, March 30. Testimony, as prepared: Read More
The Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting: Our first six months, July through December, 2020
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