How local news can help heal Philly’s gun violence crisis without harming communities

Beatrice Forman of Billy Penn spent the day at our recent Better Gun Violence Workshop and prepared this report.


What if we let Philadelphians dictate how local newsrooms approached coverage of gun violence?

That was the big question at the Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting‘s Better Gun Violence Reporting workshop last week. Reporters across the city’s broadcast and radio stations joined anti-violence researchers and advocates at Germantown’s Wyck House for a day of rethinking the crime beat.