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Weekly Brief: 11.15.23
Each week we share news from our Center plus local updates on gun violence and prevention from our partners at Billy Penn.
This week: Credible Messenger update, documentary screening and new workshop.
Weekly Brief: 11.09.23
Each week we share news from our Center plus local updates on gun violence and prevention from our partners at Billy Penn.
This week: We’ve got a full house coming for our first Gun Violence Prevention Reporter Certification Workshop next week. Pictured above: Last month our staff visited the University of Pennsylvania.
Incredible autumn at PCGVR
We have been following up on our incredible August at PCGVR with even more activities:
Last month, our team at the Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting presented our work in person at The Center for Media and Risk and SAFELab at the University of Pennsylvania, with Transforming Narratives of Gun Violence at the The Harvard Radcliffe Institute and for the new Institute for Storycraft and Information Gathering at Tufts University.
We also Zoomed into 27 US newsrooms with the Poynter Institute and delivered an update on our research at the Guggenheim Symposium on Crime In America. Our frontline staffers visited newsrooms, attended community events and were featured in special reports on FOX29 and NBC10 TV in Philadelphia.
Meanwhile, our director of research Dr. Jessica Beard was recognized with the Pina Templeton Injury Prevention Award by the American Trauma Society and the Pennsylvania Trauma Systems Foundation for her presentation on our work, and both Jessica and PCGVR founder Jim MacMillan named among Philadelphia Magazine’s 150 Most Influential Philadelphians.
We also just landed our first grant from the William Penn Foundation and our newsroom Liaison Oronde McClain was awarded an Emerging Leader Fellowship with the Stoneleigh Foundation.
On November 15 we will hold our first Gun Violence Prevention Reporter Certification Workshop and we are making preliminary plans for a national conference here in Philadelphia next spring.
We are excited to contribute significantly to addressing Philadelphia’s gun violence crisis while shaping journalism practices along the way. But we need your help. Read More
Weekly Brief: 11.01.23
Each week we share news from our Center plus local updates on gun violence and prevention from our partners at Billy Penn.
This week: PCGVR team attends House of the Living Unveiling, delivers research update at Guggenheim Symposium, and is recognized by Philadelphia Magazine.
Weekly Brief: 10.25.23
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 certification workshop on Gun Violence Prevention Reporting is drawing near.
Weekly Brief: 10.18.23
Each week we share news from our Center plus local updates on gun violence and prevention from our partners at Billy Penn.
This week: Register now for a free screening of Murders that Matter and related panel disucssion next month at Temple.
WEEKLY BRIEF: 10.11.23
Each week we share news from our Center plus local updates on gun violence and prevention from our partners at Billy Penn.
This week: Important documentaries you can watch for free online, on TV and in person.
Weekly Brief: 10.04.23
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 visits the University of Pennsylvania, the Poynter Institute for Media Studies and the Guggenheim Symposium on Crime in America.
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.
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.