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Getting it Right: Reporting on Youth Violence

Photo: Carlos Javier Ortiz

WHYY
150 N. 6th St.
Philadelphia PA

December 9 - 10, 2011

A two-day workshop in Philadelphia to help journalists and news organizations cover violence among young people. Made possible by support from the Thomas Scattergood Foundation for Behavioral Health.

This workshop, made possibly by the Thomas Scattergood Foundation for Behavioral Health with additional support from the Stoneleigh Foundation, convened a wide range of national and local mental health and policy experts, award-winning journalists, educators and violence prevention advocates and grassroots activists. Participation was open to working reporters, editors, photographers, producers or bloggers for print, broadcast or online media based in or around the Greater Philadelphia area.

Location

WHYY
150 N. 6th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19106
United States
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The workshop:

  • Served as a forum for improving journalists’ knowledge of critical issues such as mental, physical health and environmental health impacts  of  youth violence; innovations in prevention and intervention; social, economic and legal implications, and responses by schools, public health institutions, and community and faith-based organizations
  • Explored new research, reporting ideas and best practices with leading mental health, policy and prevention experts and award-winning journalists
  • Confronted challenges — and identified opportunities — that exist for journalists pursuing these stories with limited resources
  • Provided practical tools to enable journalists to successfully produce stories that examine the problem of youth violence and serve to educate and encourage prevention.

If you have any questions or need additional information, email Kate Black.

Speakers

John A. Rich, M.D., M.P.H.

Professor of Health Management and Policy

Emily F. Rothman, Sc.D.

Professor of Community Health

Eddie Bocanegra

Violence Interrupter

Robert Anda, M.D.

Senior Researcher of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology

Susan Snyder

Investigative Reporter

Kristen Graham

Education Reporter

James Estrin

Photographer and NYT Lens Blog Curator

Carlos Javier Ortiz

Photographer

Hank Willis Thomas

Photographer and Conceptual Artist

Stephen Franklin

Ethnic Media Project Director

Kenneth Ginsburg, M.D.

Pediatrician and Professor of Pediatrics

Gary Slutkin, M.D.

CeaseFire Founder and Professor of Epidemiology and International Health

Jamira Burley

Educator and Activist

James V. Grimaldi

Investigative Reporter

Marla Davis Bellamy, J.D., M.G.A.

Director of Philadelphia CeaseFire

Donna De Cesare

Photographer and Associate Professor

Everett Gillison, J.D.

Philadelphia Deputy Mayor for Public Safety and Mayor’s Chief of Staff

Acel Moore

Journalist

Brandon T. Jones

CeaseFire Outreach Worker

Ted Corbin, M.D., M.P.P.

Co-Director of the Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice

Sandra L. Bloom, M.D.

Psychiatrist and Associate Professor of Health Management and Policy

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