Investigating Guns with CIR's Shoshana Walter
July 7, 2015 by Shoshana Walter
Know the laws. Don't take their word for it. Understand that the worst offenders can fall outside of existing regulations.
Resources for gun violence
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Investigating Guns with the Indianapolis Star's Tim Evans
July 7, 2015 by Tim Evans
Make sure your facts and assertions are bulletproof. Look for subjects and issues that no one, not even the most ardent gun-rights activists, can dispute. Make your story about people.
Covering Guns: Story Ideas
July 7, 2015
Localize national stories. Dive deep into the data. Humanize your stories.
Workshop Description: Covering Guns
January 8, 2015
The Dart Center is offering a two-day workshop for journalists on covering guns and gun violence, May 29-30, in Phoenix, Arizona.
Harper High School: Parts I and II
This stark two-part radio series follows students, school staff and families as they confront and cope with the deeply disruptive impact of gun violence on their everyday lives. The series offers revelatory insights into gang geography, youth culture, the corrosive impact of trauma and the overwhelming limitations to stemming the tide of violence. Judges called “Harper High School” “profoundly moving” and “extraordinarily comprehensive and compassionate” in its complexity. Originally broadcasted on NPR in February 2013.
A Stray Bullet, A Shattered Life
The human toll of violence in Camden, New Jersey is told through the story of Jorge Cartagena: a nine-year-old boy, blinded for life by a stray bullet. Originally published in The Philadelphia Inquirer on August 7, 2011.
Getting it Right
April 5, 2008
Even as crime hits record lows in New York, among teenagers around the nation, gun homicides, gang violence and police shootings of young people are on the rise. Yet while shootings in suburban schools, churches and malls generate media controversy, epidemic levels of teen homicide in cities like Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and New Orleans attract scant attention.
Difficult Year after Gun Tragedy
September 13, 2007
Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter Claudia Rowe profiles a local family a year after the death of a son who was accidently shot and killed by his stepbrother.
The Port Arthur Massacre, April 28, 1996
March 10, 2006 by Judy Tierney
Just about everyone remembers where they were when they recall some cataclysmic event in their life. When Hobart man Martin Bryant began indiscriminately shooting people at one of Tasmania’s iconic tourism destinations I was entertaining 35 women at home. I was hosting a “girls” lunch for my journalist colleagues and some friends who held responsible positions in government.
Lethal Impulse
March 3, 2006 by Jeremy Olson, Erin Grace
Each teen suicide is a puzzle with pieces missing. Gone is the only person who might know the exact reasons. But taken together, these deaths reveal much about the social forces contributing to teen suicide. Originally published in the Omaha World-Herald in May, 2005.