How the Media Should Cover Gun Violence

From an interview on npr.org headlined “How media should cover gun violence”:

NPR’s Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Dr. Dannagal Young, professor of communications and political science at the University of Delaware, about how media coverage of gun violence affects news consumers.

PFEIFFER: Here in this newsroom, we’ve been having a lot of conversations about our role and responsibility as journalists when covering horrific tragedies like the shootings in Uvalde and Buffalo and Tulsa. We report the facts. But how we tell these stories and what details we choose to focus on – that’s something we wanted to spend some time talking about today. So we’ve called Dannagal Young. She’s a professor of communications and political science at the University of Delaware, and she studies the impact that news stories have on the public.