Each week we share news from our Center plus local updates on gun violence and prevention from our partners at Billy Penn. This week: More than 100 news articles, live appearances, webinars and press releases have helped amplify our research, journalist training programs and community reporting projects over the past five years. 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: Association of Gun Violence Reporters aims to link journalists across the U.S. 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: Communications conference recap. New lows in Philadelphia shooting victim data. Research roundup.
Avove: PCGVR newsroom liaison Orodne McClain and some of our favorite partners participated in the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication national conference last weekend in Philadelphia. Photo: Oronde listens as Prof. Yvonne Latty, director of the Logan Center for Urban Investigative Reporting at Temple University, discusses our collaborative documentary: The Second Trauma. Temple Journalism professor and PCGVR research partner Jennifer Midberry is at right. Philadelphia Inquirer managing editor of visuals Danese Kenon and University of Montana journalism Prof. Lisa Krantz also participated. Washington and Lee University journalism Prof. Patrick Walters, previous longtime Philadelphia Associated Press reporter and Temple PhD alum, broke down our Credible Messenger Reporting Project during a separate session.
Each week we share news from our Center plus local updates on gun violence and prevention from our partners at Billy Penn.
This week: PCGVR founders discuss gun violence reporting. Progress despite mass shootings.
Above: PCGVR newsroom liaison Oronde McClain speaks at the National Gun Violence Prevention Summit last winter in Washington. This week he will join a panel at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication national conference in Philadelphia.
Each week we share news from our Center plus local updates on gun violence and prevention from our partners at Billy Penn.
This week: Local activities making national impact. New documentary produced with Credible Messenger Reporting Project support. New research. Gun violence prevention and the election.
Each week we share news from our Center plus local updates on gun violence and prevention from our partners at Billy Penn.
This week: This summer marks four years since we launched PCGVR, five since we launched the parent organization and six since we published the essay where it all began.
Pictured above: 250 people attended our inaugural Better Gun Violence Reporting Summit at WHYY in Philadelphia in 2019.
Each week we share news from our Center plus local updates on gun violence and prevention from our partners at Billy Penn.
This week: Esteemed journalism organizations check in on our work. PCGVR at AEJMC. Responding to political violence.
Each week we share news from our Center plus local updates on gun violence and prevention from our partners at Billy Penn.
This week: Progress amid tragedies. Halfway report: Breaking through in 2024.
Each week we share news from our Center plus local updates on gun violence and prevention from our partners at Billy Penn.
This week: PCGVR research informing new reporting practices. Philadelphia shooting victim decline persists. Stop-and-frisk gun recovery rate remains low years after changes. Surgeon General addresses harmful media exposure in new interview.
Each week we share news from our Center plus local updates on gun violence and prevention from our partners at Billy Penn.
This week: Surgeon General’s Advisory flags media harm. New standard practices for journalists.
Each week we share news from our Center plus local updates on gun violence and prevention from our partners at Billy Penn.
This week: Gun violence in Philly has plummeted. Supreme Court strikes down ban on rapid-fire bump stocks. New study shows up to 43% of US households are not storing guns securely. You can still request screenings of The Second Trauma. And our new Better Gun Violence Reporting Toolkit is now available to download for free.
Each week we share news from our Center plus local updates on gun violence and prevention from our partners at Billy Penn. This week: Data on Philadelphia leading historic gun violence decline, photos from Heath Journalism 2024 and webinar on public attitudes toward political violence.
Above: Loraine Ballard Morrill, director of news and community affairs for iHeartMedia’s six Philadelphia radio stations, hosted the Philadelphia premiere of The Second Trauma a couple of months ago. She recently followed up with Angela Wade, who appears in the film, and interviewed PCGVR director of research Dr. Jessica Beard about our latest studies and new reporting toolkit.
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