While some reports have attributed reductions in Philadelphia gun violence to more recent local activities, the current decline has persisted since late 2022 and appears to be part of a national trend. Read More
Each week we share news from our Center plus local updates on gun violence and prevention from our partners at Billy Penn. This week: Episode two from Community Voices of Healing, Reflection and Hope, the new podcast from our Credible Messenger Reporting Project. A third quarter recap from PCGVR. And a free session on Addressing Harmful Narratives in Media at the People Power Forum Saturday at PhillyCam. Read More
“Run, Hide, Fight: Growing up under the gun,” is a new documentary produced by PBS News Student Reporting Labs and featuring stories produced by 14 young journalists from around the country, including an interview with PCGVR director Read More
Episode One: Learning to Cope The first episode will be very different from the others: Maxayn Gooden sits down with Quinn Patton for the first time in six years son their son Jah’sun was innocently Read More
Each week we share news from our Center plus local updates on gun violence and prevention from our partners at Billy Penn. This week: Visiting with journalists in St. Louis. And coming soon: Community Voices of Healing, Reflection, and Hope. AUDIO TRAILER / VIDEO TRAILER
By Sammy Caiola In the spirit of professional media organizations such as the Association of Health Care Journalists and the Society of Environmental Journalists, four gun violence reporters posted across the U.S. have created the Read More
Register now for our free webinar this Friday, December 13: Meet the Association of Gun Violence Reporters! By Sammy Caiola In the spirit of professional media organizations such as the Association of Health Care Journalists Read More
PCGVR director Jim MacMillan and research director Dr. Jessica Beard discuss gun violence, prevention and the role of the media on The Trauma Beat podcast with journalist, trauma researcher and author Tamara Cherry Read More
PCGVR Credible Messenger community manager Maxayn Gooden visited with students in Prof. Florence Madenga’s course: Black Journalism and Philadelphia, at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. 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 have been following up on our incredible August at PCGVR with even more activities:
Last month, our team at the Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting presented our work in person at The Center for Media and Risk and SAFELab at the University of Pennsylvania, with Transforming Narratives of Gun Violence at the The Harvard Radcliffe Institute and for the new Institute for Storycraft and Information Gathering at Tufts University.
We also Zoomed into 27 US newsrooms with the Poynter Institute and delivered an update on our research at the Guggenheim Symposium on Crime In America. Our frontline staffers visited newsrooms, attended community events and were featured in special reports on FOX29 and NBC10 TV in Philadelphia.
Meanwhile, our director of research Dr. Jessica Beard was recognized with the Pina Templeton Injury Prevention Award by the American Trauma Society and the Pennsylvania Trauma Systems Foundation for her presentation on our work, and both Jessica and PCGVR founder Jim MacMillan named among Philadelphia Magazine’s 150 Most Influential Philadelphians.
We also just landed our first grant from the William Penn Foundation and our newsroom Liaison Oronde McClain was awarded an Emerging Leader Fellowship with the Stoneleigh Foundation.
On November 15 we will hold our first Gun Violence Prevention Reporter Certification Workshop and we are making preliminary plans for a national conference here in Philadelphia next spring.
We are excited to contribute significantly to addressing Philadelphia’s gun violence crisis while shaping journalism practices along the way. But we need your help. Read More
Each week we share news from our Center plus local updates on gun violence and prevention from our partners at Billy Penn.
Above: Our team visited FOX 29 Philadelphia last week and had the opportunity to discuss community views on better gun violence reporting.
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