Covering Gun Violence

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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Coverage of the Kent State Shootings Through the Eyes of a Young Editor

By Bob Giles• Books• March 30, 2020

Robert Giles, former curator of the Nieman Foundation, was managing editor of the Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal on May 4, 1970 when four students were killed at Kent State University during an anti-war protest. National Guard soldiers also wounded nine … Read more

What Could Trauma-Informed Journalism Look Like?

By Anne Godlasky• Covering Gun Violence• January 22, 2020

When I hear teachers or soldiers or ministers talk about what they do as a calling, I get it. Though the public may not believe it, journalists carry a similar sense of duty and purpose, a similar feeling of being … Read more

What Journalists Can Do To Report More Effectively — and Compassionately — on Gun Violence

By Katherine Reed• Covering Gun Violence• November 22, 2019

In Philadelphia, being a trauma surgeon means being an expert on what bullets do to bodies. Every night that Dr. Jessica Beard is on call at Temple University Hospital, she treats a gun-injured patient. “And that’s Every. Single. Night,” she … Read more

“A mass shooting, only in slow motion”

By Glenn Jeffers• Covering Gun Violence• June 26, 2017

Terrence McCoy was rummaging through clips when he came across the story of Kimi Reylander. Reylander, 9, was shot and killed while visiting her great-grandfather’s home in Irondale, Alabama, a small town just east of Birmingham. The culprit? Her brother … Read more

Covering Gun Violence

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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Coverage of the Kent State Shootings Through the Eyes of a Young Editor

What Could Trauma-Informed Journalism Look Like?

What Journalists Can Do To Report More Effectively — and Compassionately — on Gun Violence

“A mass shooting, only in slow motion”

How Newsrooms Handle Graphic Images of Violence

Cultures Clash in Coverage of a School Shooting

Giving Readers Ways to Heal and to Help in Springfield, Oregon

Sensitive Early Reporting Opened Up Good Leads in Edinboro, Pennsylvania

Voicing the Community’s Horror Worked Well in Jonesboro, Arkansas

The Freedom Forum’s Critique of The Sun’s Reporting on the Westside Shootings