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SUMMARY:Reporting on the crucial role doctors play in gun violence prevention
DESCRIPTION:Gun suicides reached an all-time high in 2023\, and almost 4% of gun-related deaths in the United States were unintentional shootings — the worst year on record for unintentional shootings by children.  \n\n\n\nAt the same time\, firearms are used in more than three out of five intimate partner homicides in the United States. Yet more than half of clinicians report that they avoid discussing firearm access and safety with patients because they don’t feel equipped to do so or worry about alienating their patients.  \n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, trauma surgeon Dr. Joseph Sakran will talk about how the medical community must overcome its reticence\, take responsibility and prepare to have these difficult conversations.  \n\n\n\nHe’ll talk through a new resource guide from the gun violence prevention organization Brady United that helps clinicians talk to their patients about firearm access and safety. He will also share how health care journalists can cover firearm access and highlight story ideas. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\nKaitlin Washburn\n\n\n\nAHCJ Health Beat Leader for Firearm ViolenceKaitlin Washburn is AHCJ’s health beat leader for firearm violence and trauma and an independent journalist based in Chicago\, primarily working for the Chicago Sun-Times. She was a gun violence reporter for two years in Missouri for The Kansas City Star as a Report for America corps member. Previously\, Washburn was an agriculture reporter covering the omnipresent industry in California’s Central Valley for The Sun-Gazette\, also as a part of RFA. Previously\, Washburn had internships at the Morning Call in Pennsylvania\, the Center for Responsive Politics in Washington\, D.C. and The Oregonian in Portland. She spent three years as a researcher for Investigative Reporters and Editors\, based at The University of Missouri. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoseph Sakran\, M.D.\n\n\n\nBoard Chair and Chief Medical Officer\, Brady UnitedTrauma surgeon\, Johns HopkinsAn award-winning researcher and pioneer in promoting firearm injury prevention\, Dr. Sakran’s dedication to his field is rooted in his lived experience of trauma from gun violence.  \n\n\n\nAt the age of 17\, Dr. Sakran was nearly killed after being shot in the throat with a 38-caliber bullet after a high school football game. \n\n\n\nAn active leader at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore\, Dr. Sakran serves as the executive vice chair of Surgery\, director of Clinical Operations for Surgery\, and associate professor of Surgery and Nursing. His public health research — specifically on firearm injury prevention — has been recognized by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and Academy Health. \n\n\n\nDr. Sakran gained international prominence in 2018 when the NRA told doctors concerned about gun violence to “stay in their lane” and avoid addressing the topic. Dr. Sakran spoke out to illustrate that healthcare professionals are on the frontlines of this epidemic. In response\, Dr. Sakran launched @ThisIsOurLane\, a grassroots movement of medical professionals committed to reducing firearm injuries and deaths.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/reporting-on-the-crucial-role-doctors-play-in-gun-violence-prevention/
CATEGORIES:Firearm Violence,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Gun violence reporting certification: What it is and why journalists should get it
DESCRIPTION:The movement in journalism for less episodic and more thoughtful\, trauma-informed gun violence coverage is growing\, as are opportunities for journalists to learn how to get it right. \n\n\n\nA recent example is a certification workshop held by the Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting. The day-long training\, called the “Gun Violence Prevention Reporter Certification Workshop\,” explored best practices for reporting on firearm violence and prevention. Participants included 25 journalists and 15 community-based gun violence prevention experts. \n\n\n\nThe central idea is that reporting on gun violence as a public health issue can provide a better understanding of why violence happens and how to prevent it. This type of reporting is also about minimizing the harm done by sensationalized\, episodic violence coverage. \n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, Jim MacMillan\, founder and director of The Initiative for Better Gun Violence Reporting\, and Alaina Bookman\, a violence prevention reporter for AL.com and a participant in the workshop\, talked about the main points of the workshop\, how certification aims to improve coverage of firearm violence prevention\, the benefits of offering a certification\, and what plans are in the works to offer the certification to more journalists. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKaitlin Washburn is AHCJ’s health beat leader for firearm violence and trauma and a reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times. She was a gun violence reporter for two years in Missouri for The Kansas City Star as a Report for America corps member. Previously\, Washburn was an agriculture reporter covering the omnipresent industry in California’s Central Valley for The Sun-Gazette\, also as a part of RFA. Previously\, Washburn had internships at the Morning Call in Pennsylvania\, the Center for Responsive Politics in Washington\, D.C. and The Oregonian in Portland. She spent three years as a researcher for Investigative Reporters and Editors\, based at The University of Missouri. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlaina Bookman was born and raised in Dallas and is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. She has experience working as a journalist for the Houston Defender and as an archivist at the University of Texas Black Diaspora Archives. Her role as a violence prevention reporter at AL.com is supported by Report for America\, a nonprofit that aids local newsrooms. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJim MacMillan is the founder and director of the Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting and the assistant director of the Logan Center for Urban Investigative Reporting at Temple University. He has been a fellow at the Reynolds Journalism Institute\, the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma and the Knight-Wallace Fellows\, as well as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Missouri School of Journalism and Swarthmore College. Previously\, MacMillan spent 17 years at the Philadelphia Daily News and photographed the war in Iraq for The Associated Press\, after which he and his team were awarded The Pulitzer Prize.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/gun-violence-reporting-certification-what-it-is-and-why-journalists-should-get-it/
CATEGORIES:Firearm Violence,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Reframing Firearm Violence: How journalists can use research in their reporting
DESCRIPTION: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.  \n\n\n\nJoin AHCJ and the National Press Club Journalism Institute at 11:30 a.m. ET on Friday\, Feb. 9\, for a conversation among experts and journalists on where to find the best data and research on firearm and gun deaths for your reporting. \n\n\n\nIn this 75-minute webinar\, we’ll explore the gaps\, go-to resources\, and facts and myths about firearms and firearm ownership. Participants will also learn: \n\n\n\n\nThe differences among firearm violence\, such as what is a mass casualty event versus a mass shooting.\n\n\n\nWhere to find new research on firearm violence.\n\n\n\nHow news coverage of firearm violence impacts victims and frontline health workers.\n\n\n\nHow to move thinking of firearm violence as “the crime beat” to more nuanced coverage across beats.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKaitlin Washburn is AHCJ’s health beat leader for firearm violence and trauma and a reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times. She was a gun violence reporter for two years in Missouri for The Kansas City Star as a Report for America corps member. Previously\, Washburn was an agriculture reporter covering the omnipresent industry in California’s Central Valley for The Sun-Gazette\, also as a part of RFA. Previously\, Washburn had internships at the Morning Call in Pennsylvania\, the Center for Responsive Politics in Washington\, D.C. and The Oregonian in Portland. She spent three years as a researcher for Investigative Reporters and Editors\, based at The University of Missouri. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJessica Beard\, M.D.\, is a trauma surgeon at Temple University in Philadelphia\, PA\, a Stoneleigh Foundation Fellow\, and Director of Research for The Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting. Her research examines the perspectives of firearm-injured people on media reports of their injuries and seeks to define\, measure\, and support minimization of harmful reporting on community firearm violence. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbené Clayton is a reporter in the Guardian’s California office and is the lead reporter on the newspaper’s “Guns & Lies in America” series\, which launched in 2019 and focuses on the impacts of and solutions to community violence. She started covering gun violence in her hometown of Richmond\, California\, and is now based in Los Angeles where she covers the people who live where shootings and homicides happen most.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJennifer Mascia is a senior news writer and founding staffer at The Trace\, the only newsroom that exclusively covers gun violence\, which launched in 2015. She previously reported on gun violence for The New York Times\, where she began her career as a news assistant. She served as the lead writer for the Times’s annual Neediest Cases campaign\, which profiles New Yorkers in need\, and wrote and produced The Gun Report\, a daily tally of gun violence victims in America that ran for a year and a half after the Sandy Hook shooting. 
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/reframing-firearm-violence-how-journalists-can-use-research-in-their-reporting/
CATEGORIES:Firearm Violence,Webinar
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