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
The Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting is honored and excited to help launch this new organization. Launch team members participating in this webinar include: Abené Clayton, who leads the Gun & Lies project for 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
We were delighted to spot some of our guidance recently in the new criminal justice reporting chapter of the latest edition of the AP Stylebook, arguably journalism’s most essential reference. They even name-checked PCGVR among the recommended resources, alongside the Dart Center, Marshall Project and Poynter Institute, some of journalism’s most prominent institutions. Read More
The Credible Messenger Reporting Project empowers people impacted by gun violence to report on root causes, lived experience and possible solutions from the community perspective. Read More
PCGVR director of research Dr. Jessica Beard introduced our new Better Gun Violence Reporting Toolkit while participating on a panel titled “In your lane: Covering America’s biggest public health crisis” at Health Journalism 2024, the annual conference of the Association of Health Care Journalists. Read More
Two new studies led by PCGVR Director of Research Dr. Jessica Beard have been published: Systematic disparities in reporting on community firearm violence on local television news in Philadelphia, PA. Read More
This 25-minute documentary shows the harmful effects of episodic gun violence reporting on survivors and co-victims and offers solutions on how we can do better to shift the narrative to a public health focus and give power back to the community to advocate for their safety. 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
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