This page was created to share resources for those reporting on gun violence. If you spot errors or omissions, please Contact PCGVR.
Philadelphia community organizations
IBGVR
The Initiative for Better Gun Violence Reporting
Better Gun Violence Reporting Summit: 2019
Agenda | Audio | Experts | Hashtag | Notes | Photos | Press | Recap
Gun violence and prevention news
Notable journalism projects
Cost of the Crossfire: Chattanooga Times Free Press
Targeting Gun Violence Newsletter: Juvenile Justice Information Exchange
The Toll (newsletter): The Indianapolis Star
The True Cost of Gun Violence in America: Mother Jones
Huffpost: What Bullets Do to Bodies
What it’s like to be counted on to repair the bodies broken by America’s relentless gun violence
Solutions journalism and gun violence
How to Report On Gun Violence in America
Solutions Story Tracker: Search results for gun
Chattanooga Times Free Press: Cost of the Crossfire
Pennsylvania Capital-Star #PAForward Search: “gun” tweets
Reporting resources
Bibliography of academic studies on contagion (2017)
Berkeley Media Studies Group: Search results for “gun”
David Kennedy addresses Mothers in Charge, 2014
Dart Center: Covering Guns & Gun Violence
Dart Center: Reporting on Youth Violence
Enormous resource list: Miscellaneous Crime Sites
Firearm technology and vocabulary: Everytown
Following up: Gun violence coverage references from ONA18
Gary Slutkin: Ted Talk
Gun Deaths In America | FiveThirtyEight
Gun Violence Data: Comprehensive record of over 260k US gun violence incidents from 2013-2018
JJIE Resources: Data and Statistics
JJIE: Youth Gun Violence Resources
Journalist’s Resource – Search Results for: gun
On the Media: How to Report On Gun Violence in America
Rank state by type of gun death: Gun Violence in the United States, 2010-17
Reducing Gun Violence in America: Evidence for Change
Reporting Roseburg: The Journalists’ Narrative
Reporting on Violence: New Ideas for Television, Print and Web (2001!)
The Trace: Monthly Firearm Sales Estimates
Firearm technology and vocabulary: Everytown
Mass shooting coverage resources
The Violence Project: Mass Shooting Data & Research
Recommendations For Reporting on Mass Shootings: reportingonmassshootings.org
No Notoriety: https://nonotoriety.com/
Don’t Name Them https://www.dontnamethem.org/
The “I Love U Guys” Foundation – https://iloveuguys.org/
Reporting Roseburg – The Journalists’ Narrative
Journalism organizations
Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma
Gun violence research institutions
Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy & Research
AFFIRM: American Foundation for Firearm Injury Reduction in Medicine
Center for Gun Violence Prevention
The New Jersey Center on Gun Violence Research at Rutgers
The National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research
Begun Center for Violence Prevention
Intervention programs
National Network for Safe Communities
Advocacy groups
Coalition to Stop Gun Violence
The Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence
Books
Reducing Gun Violence in America: Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis
The Gun Debate: What Everyone Needs To Know®: Philip J. Cook, Kristin A. Goss
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America: Jill Leovy
Third and Indiana: A Novel : Steve Lopes (fiction, sort of)
On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City (Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries): Alice Goffman (*controversy)
Twitter lists
IBGVR: Gun violence and prevention experts
IBGVR: Gun violence and prevention journalists
IBGVR: Summit presenters and related organizations
Care
Reporting on traumatic events such as gun violence can present special challenges and responsibilities related to the well-being of journalists, the people we engage with and the audiences and communities we serve. Please take advantage of these resources from the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma:
Self-care:
Managing Stress & Trauma on Investigative Projects
New Media Landscape, Less Media Safety
8 Ways Freelance Journalists Can Practice Self-Care
Student Journalist Perspective: Self-Care Practices for the Newsroom
For editors:
Reporters Exposed to Traumatic Events: Tips for Managers and Editors
Editor Perspective: Self-Care Practices and Peer Support for the Newsroom
Harm reduction:
Working with Victims and Survivors: Minimise Further Harm
Ethical Reporting on Traumatised People
Pennsylvania data
PA Health Department: Violence Dashboard
crimedatatool.com: PA homicide visualization
crimedatatool.com: Assaults on Police
Philadelphia data
Open Data Philly: Shooting Victims CSV
data.phila.gov/visualizations: Shooting Victims
Philadelphia DA: Public Data Dashboard
Philadelphia Police Department: Crime Maps & Stats
Crime Incidents: 2006 – Present
City of Philadelphia: Community Health Explorer
Philly.com: 2018 shooting victims visualization
data.philly.com: Philadelphia Homicides (1998-2017)
Gun violence in Philly: ‘An everyday mass shooting,’ Temple study finds
Philadelphia Police Crime Prevention & Violence Reduction Action Plan, June, 2020
Philadelphia Office of Violence Prevention: The Philadelphia Roadmap to Safer Communities, January, 2019
Philadelphia / PA Advocacy Groups
The Coalition of Trauma Centers for Firearm Injury Prevention