Changing the Way Media Reports on Gun Violence

Stoneleigh Fellow Jessica Beard spoke to NPR’s Michel Martin about the ways media can avoid retraumatizing survivors of gun violence.

Americans have grown accustomed to hearing about the latest mass shooting. And recently news coverage has been focused on two tragic events in California.

Last weekend eleven people were killed and nine injured in Monterey Park near Los Angeles. And on Monday, seven people were killed and one wounded in Half Moon Bay, just south of San Francisco.

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