Empowering responsible reporting on gun violence

This morning at 10am: AGVR.org co-director Sammy Caiola of and PCGVR's Eric Marsh, Sr., will discuss the rapidly-growing Association of Gun Violence Reporters at Klein News Innovation Camp 2025 at Temple University. It's a great brilliant at a bargain price: www.eventbrite.com/e/16th-annua...

We inform journalistic practices to prevent harm and illuminate programs and policies that prevent gun violence. But we need your help.

"Many suicide prevention organizations have compiled recommendations, guidelines and best practices for how to responsibly report about the topic:"

"In 2023, firearms were the leading cause of death for children ages 1–17, taking more lives than car crashes, overdoses, or cancer. Policy solutions that can keep kids safe include Child Access Prevention laws, which ensure safe, secure storage, and Extreme Risk Protection Orders."

“Restoration policy must take adequate account of both risk reduction and rights protection... Balancing liberty with justice in a manner that strengthens public trust while avoiding unwarranted risks of firearm harms.”

"To examine widespread myths about guns, firearm safety, self-defense, and gun laws, and to share what the data actually shows. We will explore where common assumptions go wrong and what research tells us about the risks and realities of gun violence."

And this is happening at a priceless one-day un-conference. Tickets are very affordable. This team goes on at 10 a.m. Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/16th-annua...

"This partnership shows that when local organizations unite, we can respond faster, prevent further harm, and help restore safety and hope in our community.” From Illinois:

Here's Part 2, with a deep dive into our Survivor Connection project and the new Association of Gun Violence Reporters. Many thanks to @heatherjchin.bsky.social @billy-penn.bsky.social for your caring attention to our work:

These forums you hold are so educational to even ordinary residents who just want to be aware; to be informed about what can be and what is being done to make our fair city, and others nationwide, safer.

"Shifting the focus away from what gun manufacturers can reasonably do to prevent mass shootings to other causes is a diversionary tactic that what we’ve historically seen in other industries... We should be able to expect them to be part of the solution."

Join us tomorrow morning! Great event! Tickets are a bargain:

"I’m starting my second full-time job as a gun violence reporter. It’s a position that remains heartbreakingly relevant in Philadelphia and other cities as the economic, racial, and health disparities driving the firearms crisis in America remain largely uncovered and unaddressed."

"City Council unanimously passed a resolution to rename the blocks in Johnson's honor back in September, citing his community advocacy... (His) mother and other family members pressed council members to do more to address gun violence in Philadelphia at a session held days after the rapper's death."

I'm always grateful to @billy-penn.bsky.social for their attention to our work. I'm feeling really proud and grateful to our team for every outcome in this sentence:

"The resulting resources — a reporting toolkit, an online platform to connect journalists and survivors, formal training, a short documentary video and a professional organization — are now proving foundational to the evolving national conversation around how gun violence is portrayed in news media"

ICYMI yesterday: We have three more events coming up in the next 11 days

Please join us this month in person twice in Philadelphia and also live online: www.pcgvr.org

More than 68,000 gun were sold in Pennsylvania during September, up four percent from the previous month and down one percent from the same month last year.

Gun violence is preventable. Journalists can make a difference.

"Many rural adolescents’ lives were affected by firearm violence exposure, and compared with peers, those exposed had differences in their attitudes toward firearms and safety strategies."

In this morning's Weekly Brief: PCGVR/PCCD partnering on webinar with Pa. Lt. Gov. Davis.... Catch up with AGVR at Klein Camp this Saturday... Join us at free healthcare symposium next week... Fellowship complete; survivor services continuing... Watch new AGVR webinar: mailchi.mp/ibgvr/101819...

"With so much unknown, many firearms experts and neurologists say the safest course of action is to limit exposure as much as possible. The data shows that shooting indoors does the opposite."

We collaborate with @billy-penn.bsky.social to produce the Weekly Brief on gun violence prevention, delivered via their daily newsletter every Wednesday. Here's this week's edition: mailchi.mp/billypenn/we...

Nine shooting victims were recorded from October 25 through November 1 in Philadelphia, including two fatalities, according to city data. During the previous week: 14 shooting victims were recorded, including seven fatalities. Weekly map generated via: www.nickhand.dev/philly-gun-v...

PCGVR SurvivorConnection.org director Oronde McClain delivered his capstone presentation last month concluding his two-year Stoneleigh Foundation Emerging Leader Fellowship. He will continue how work with us, beginning with a new workshop soon. Photograph by Chris Kendig. mailchi.mp/a408882a521f...

"The narrative elements we include in our news coverage can make a big difference when it comes to helping audiences understand an event, its context, and the possibilities for substantive change."

"We connect journalists working on gun violence to support, opportunities, and resources."

We inform journalistic practices to prevent harm and illuminate programs and policies that prevent gun violence. But we need your help.

Last summer we published this roadmap to our work, with videos introducing some key staffers and stakeholders:

PCGVR SurvivorConnection.org director Oronde McClain delivered his capstone presentation last month concluding his two-year Stoneleigh Foundation Emerging Leader Fellowship. He will continue how work with us, beginning with a new workshop soon. Photograph by Chris Kendig. mailchi.mp/a408882a521f...

Thanks again to everyone who attended our "What Now?" national conference and gun violence prevention reporting certification workshop last month here in Philadelphia. Here's an extensive new slide show with nearly 100 photographs by Kriston Jae Bethel for PCGVR: www.pcgvr.org/whatnow/

The Association of Gun Violence Reporters, in partnership with Black Alder Labs, hosted this discussion among journalists of color about how to cover gun violence in your own community with an eye toward context and solutions while avoiding extraction and harm.

"These legal protections prevent abusers from owning guns in some states, reducing the rates of domestic violence homicides, which are most frequently carried out with a firearm. "

Association of Gun Violence Reporters co-director Sammy Caiola will discuss the rapidly-emerging organization with Eric Marsh, Sr., who oversees the program for PCGVR, this Saturday during Klein News Innovation Camp at Temple University. technical.ly/civic-news/k...

By the numbers: 117 people attended our national "What Now?" conference last month, and 58 have received certificates for completing our Gun Violence Prevention Reporting workshop. Photo of attendees arriving above by Kriston Jae Bethel for PCGVR. Conference report coming soon at: pcgvr.org/whatnow

By the numbers: 117 people attended our national "What Now?" conference last month, and 58 have received certificates for completing our Gun Violence Prevention Reporting workshop. Photo of attendees arriving above by Kriston Jae Bethel for PCGVR. Conference report coming soon at: pcgvr.org/whatnow

Social network analysis as a tool for understanding mass shooting prevention: A case study of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"Includes videos, fact sheets, toolkits and conversation guides for physicians to educate patients and their families about the risks associated with unsecured firearms and best practices to help reduce injuries and deaths."

The president has taken credit for reducing crime in the capital, but a new analysis by The Trace shows that a decline was already underway.

Please join us this month in person twice in Philadelphia and also live online: www.pcgvr.org

By changing the way gun violence is covered, reporters can take an active role in minimizing harm to injured people, communities, and society—and even make an important contribution toward preventing gun violence.

New event: Attend our webinar with the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency and Lieutenant Governor Austin Davis: Centering Survivors in Gun Violence Reporting. Register for free now and join us online on November 17: events.gcc.teams.microsoft.com/event/3e0477...

tremendously sad that our young folks have trouble even imagining a life free of guns, despite this being the only nation on earth living like this. our info ecosystem and broader partisan politics is such a wreck

"From understanding fear and identity to shifting social norms, insights from psychology don’t just explain the problem; they help us design more humane and effective solutions."

“This is a generation of people who live with significant fear and anxiety over mass violence... But we found that those shared fears do not unite them in attitudes on gun policy. In fact, they polarize them.”

"The findings hold potential implications for strategies to reduce firearm thefts from vehicles, such as targeted public awareness campaigns, promoting vehicle secure storage, and place-based policing strategies."

"The DOJ disqualified community organizations and nonprofits from applying for funding through the initiative — even though the Biden-era program was built to fund those very groups."

We inform journalistic practices to prevent harm and illuminate programs and policies that prevent gun violence. But we need your help.