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Firearm violence is largely covered in the media as a crime issue focused on individual shooting events. But experts assert that reframing firearms violence as a broader public health issue is crucial to finding policy and community solutions aimed at preventing deaths and injury from guns.

Join the National Press Club Journalism Institute at 11:30 am ET on Friday, Feb. 9, for a conversation among experts and journalists on where to find the best data and research on firearms and gun deaths for your reporting.

Confirmed speakers include:

Dr. Jessica Beard, director of research at The Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting
Abené Clayton, reporter on The Guardian’s Guns and Lies in America project
Jennifer Mascia, senior news writer and founding staffer at The Trace
Moderator: Kaitlin Washburn, health beat leader for firearm violence and trauma at the Association of Health Care Journalists and reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times

🎓 2024 National Press Club scholarship applications open 🎓

The National Press Club and the Institute are currently accepting applications for all 2024 scholarships:

The Scholarship for Journalism Diversity Honoring Julie Schoo is a $5,000 scholarship awarded to a high school senior. The award can be renewed for up to three years at $5,000 per year. (Deadline: Feb. 18)

The Richard G. Zimmerman Scholarship is a one-time scholarship of $5,000 to support a high school senior who wishes to pursue a career in journalism. (Deadline: Feb. 18)

The Wes Vernon Broadcast Scholarship, supports diversity within broadcast journalism. The scholarship is $5,000 per year awarded to a college or graduate student who demonstrates a commitment to a career in broadcast journalism. The award can be renewed up to three years. (Deadline: Feb. 18)

The Lewis Scholarship provides housing and a monthly stipend to support college student journalists of color with newsroom internships in Washington, D.C. (Deadline: April 7)

The Dennis and Shirley Feldman Fellowship recognizes a journalism graduate student with a one-time stipend of $5,000. (Deadline: April 14)

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