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The Trace is hiring an assistant engagement editor to elevate our gun violence reporting across a range of channels. We’re looking for someone who is deeply knowledgeable about social media and enthusiastic about reaching readers in new ways. The ideal…
The Business of Guns
In a new episode of “Reveal,” The Trace’s Alain Stephens reports on how law enforcement agencies routinely resell their used guns to buy new ones.
This is your opportunity to sustain the only team of journalists dedicated to reporting on gun violence.
This journalist will expand and deepen The Trace’s gun violence coverage throughout the region, filling a crucial information gap by combining quick-turnaround news and feature stories.
This is an opportunity to be a founding member of an important, first-of-its-kind project to provide the media industry with the tools to uncover new truths about America’s gun violence crisis.
In Guns We Trust
The final episode of “Long Shadow: In Guns We Trust" explores the effects of school shootings and active shooter drills on a generation of kids who grew up in a climate of fear. Some of them are now leading the gun safety movement.
The award for Jennifer Mascia coincides with finalist recognition from ASME, NABJ, and the Deadline Club.
Alma Beauvais and Ava Sasani will help with news gathering and the Gun Violence Data Hub.
In episode 5 of “Long Shadow: In Guns We Trust,” host Garrett Graff speaks with the architect of the seismic District of Columbia v. Heller case about his search for the perfect plaintiff.
In Episode 4 of “Long Shadow: In Guns We Trust," host Garrett Graff speaks with Wall Street Journal reporter Cameron McWhirter and former NRA lobbyist Richard Feldman about the political climate that propelled assault-style weapons into the mainstream.
This journalist will pioneer new ways to leverage data and visualizations for better coverage of gun violence, one of the country's most urgent public health issues.
Data
The Trace is launching an initiative that will help journalists access data on one of America’s most critical — and opaque — public health crises.
Episode 3 of “Long Shadow: In Guns We Trust" profiles the key individuals behind the gun group's central philosophy: the right to — and need for — armed self-defense.
Gun restrictions were not always so fraught in America. The second episode of “Long Shadow: In Guns We Trust” explains how the National Rifle Association seized on the Second Amendment to change the course of history.
The first episode of “Long Shadow: In Guns We Trust” explores the legacy of the infamous mass shooting in Littleton, Colorado.
