Tag: Jessica Beard
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.
Documentary seeks to heal rift between public and news industry with trauma-informed approach to gun violence
“The Second Trauma” hopes to bring an end to sensationalized, episodic coverage of America’s signature brand of violent crime.
Getting started with a gun violence prevention beat
Using a public health lens to guide the reporting is critical.