Dr. Jessica Beard Joins Philadelphia Community Podcast’s Insight Spotlight to Discuss Two New Studies That More Closely Examine How Reports of Community Firearm Violence Are Framed on Local Television News

Jessica H. Beard, MD, MPH, FACS, Associate 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, joined iHeartMedia’s Loraine Ballard Morrill on the Philadelphia Community Podcast’s Insight Spotlight to discuss better gun violence reporting and two new studies published in Preventive Medicine Reports and BMC Public Health. The studies, which Dr. Beard was the corresponding author on, 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’s perception of the issue.