Free NPCJI training: Reframing firearm violence news coverage on Friday at 11:30 a.m.
Firearm violence is largely covered in the media as a crime issue focused on individual shooting events. But experts assert that reframing firearm violence as a broader public-health issue is crucial to finding policy and community solutions aimed at preventing deaths and injury from guns.
Join the National Press Club Journalism Institute at 11:30 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 9, for a conversation among experts and journalists on where to find the best data and research on firearms and gun deaths for your reporting. Registration is open and free.
In this 75-minute webinar, the panel expects to explore the gaps, go-to resources, and facts and myths about firearms and firearms ownership. Participants will also learn:
- The differences among firearm violence, such as what is a mass casualty event versus a mass shooting
- Where to find new research on firearm violence
- How news coverage of firearm violence impacts victims and frontline health workers
- How to move thinking of firearm violence as “the crime beat” to more nuanced coverage across other beats
Speakers include:
- Dr. Jessica Beard, director of research at the Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting
- Abené Clayton, reporter on the Guns and Lies in America project at The Guardian
- Jennifer Mascia, senior news writer and founding staffer at The Trace
- Moderator: Kaitlin Washburn, health beat leader for firearm violence and trauma, Association of Health Care Journalists; reporter, Chicago Sun-Times