Tag: Association of Gun Violence Reporters
Building better practices for covering gun violence
In 2019, Jim MacMillan started his Reynolds Journalism Institute fellowship with a hunch: that the common ways journalists reported on gun violence weren’t helping the public understand the crisis and were often causing further harm to gun violence survivors and their communities.
Gun violence isn’t going anywhere. Take care of yourself so you can cover it
“Watch a bad movie.” Beat reporters have learned some simple, effective strategies to help deal with the trauma of covering traumatic events.