At present
• Director: Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting ∞
Recent research
• Comparison of community firearm violence news reports across four local television stations in Philadelphia, PA, USA: A quantitative media content analysis, 2025 ∞
• Defining harmful news reporting on community firearm violence: A modified Delphi consensus study, 2024 ∞
• Systematic disparities in reporting on community firearm violence on local television news in Philadelphia, PA, USA, 2024 ∞
• Public health framing of firearm violence on local television news in Philadelphia, PA, USA: a quantitative content analysis, 2024 ∞
• Changed Frames: A Content Analysis of Public Health Reporting on Local Philadelphia TV News Reporting, 2023 ∞
• “Like I’m a nobody:” firearm-injured peoples’ perspectives on news media reporting about firearm violence, 2023 ∞
• Making the news: Victim characteristics associated with media reporting on firearm injury, 2020 ∞
Previous fellowships & residencies
• Residential Fellow, Reynolds Journalism Institute, University of Missouri School of Journalism
• Knight Fellow in Medicine/Health Sciences Journalism, Knight-Wallace Fellows, University of Michigan
• Ochberg Fellow, Global Center for Journalism and Trauma, previously know as the Dart Center at Columbia University
• Fellow, Philadelphia Social Innovations Lab, University of Pennsylvania
• Journalist in Residence, Swarthmore College
• Practitioner in Residence, Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University
Past faculty appointments
• Assistant Professor, University of Missouri School of Journalism
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Peace and Conflict Studies, Swarthmore College
• Adjunct Faculty, Carter Journalism Institute, New York University
• Adjunct Professor, Klein College of Media and Communication, Temple University
Courses created
• Peace Journalism, Peace and Conflict Studies, Swarthmore College
• Solutions Journalism, Department of Journalism, Temple University
• Trauma Journalism, Department of Journalism, Temple University
Certifications
• Gun violence prevention reporting ∞
• Hostile environment reporting ∞
• Human subject research ∞
• Threat assessment ∞
Former photojournalist
• Philadelphia Daily News (R.I.P.) (1991-2008)
• The Associated Press, Baghdad & Boston (2004-2005, 1985)
• The Times Leader, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. (1988-1991)
• The Daily Transcript, Dedham, Ma. (1987-1988)
• Freelance news photographer, Boston (1980-1987)
Select honors
• The Pulitzer Prize ∞
• The Bayeux Prize for War Correspondents
• National Headliner Award
• Hometown honors: Best of Philly, Philadelphia Geek Award, Pen & Pencil Club Awards, Philadelphia Magazine Most Influential Philadelphians
©Photograph by Jim MacMillan