Weekly Brief: 09.27.23
Each week we share news from our Center plus local updates on gun violence and prevention from our partners at Billy Penn.
This week: Survivor perspectives, PCGVR events, White House announcement and more.
Articles by The Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting
Weekly Brief: 09.20.23
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.
Weekly Brief: 09.13.23
Each week we share news from our Center plus local updates on gun violence and prevention from our partners at Billy Penn.
This week: Our Credible Messenger Newsroom Liaison Oronde McClain and our new Lenfest Next Generation Intern Dashawn Walker were interviewed for a special report from NBC10. A new initiative in Georgia seeks to change the way local newsrooms engage with the families of crime victims. And PCGVR director Jim MacMillan joins the Logan Center.
Weekly Brief: 09.06.23
Each week we share news from our Center plus local updates on gun violence and prevention from our partners at Billy Penn.
This week: New honors for our team, an old friend back in the news, drones over schools, a local history lesson and goodbye Eyewitness News.
Incredible August at PCGVR
We had an incredible August at PCGVR, making the case for better gun violence reporting on panels at three national conference, culminating here last week when the Online News Association (ONA) Conference convened here in Philadelphia. Our Read More
Weekly Brief: 08.30.23
Each week we share news from our Center plus local updates on gun violence and prevention from our partners at Billy Penn.
This week: We are making plans to share our work during events taking place this fall at the University of Scranton, the University of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson University, the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Tufts University and Washington and Lee University.
Discussing gun violence, prevention and the role of the media, with the media
Tyrique Glasgow, at right, CEO of the Young Chances Foundation in Philadelphia, shares community perspectives on gun violence news reporting during a collaborative panel presentation we organized for the national Online News Association Conference in Philadelphia.
Glasgow is seated next to our director of research and Stoneleigh Foundation fellow Dr. Jessica Beard as well a Temple University journalism Prof. Yvonne Latty, director of the Logan Center for Urban Investigative Reporting and Mensah Dean, Philadelphia staff writer for The Trace. Moderator Sarah Glover, vice president of news & civic dialogue at WHYY in Philadelphia is standing at left. Read More
Weekly Brief: 08.23.23
Each week we share news from our Center plus local updates on gun violence and prevention from our partners at Billy Penn.
This week: We’re stepping up at the national Online News Association Conference taking here place in Philadelphia.
Weekly Brief: 08.16.23
Each week we share news from our Center plus local updates on gun violence and prevention from our partners at Billy Penn.
This week: We helped plan a session on gun violence prevention reporting for a national journalism conference coming to Philadelphia next week.
Weekly Brief: 08.09.23
Each week we share news from our Center plus local updates on gun violence and prevention from our partners at Billy Penn.
This week: New podcast episode. More conferences. And there’s another violence prevention reporter on the job.
Weekly Brief: 08.02.23
Each week we share news from our Center plus local updates on gun violence and prevention from our partners at Billy Penn.
This week: Our team has been honored with the opportunity to make presentations at several prominent journalism conferences this month.