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You see it every morning on the news. the overnight shooting. The police tape, the bullets encircled by chalk on the ground. New studies show coverage of gun violence can re-traumatize survivors. Two new studies published in Preventive Medicine Reports\xa0and\xa0BMC Public Health\xa0led by corresponding author\xa0Jessica H. Beard, MD, MPH, FACS,\xa0Associate Professor of Surgery in the Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care and Director of Trauma Research at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, more closely examine how reports of community firearm violence are framed on local television news in Philadelphia and the downstream effects of that coverage on the general public\u2019s perception of the issue.

The Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting has created\xa0 \u201cBetter Gun Violence Reporting: A Toolkit for minimizing Harm.