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Dr. Jessica Beard Joins the It’s All Journalism Podcast to Discuss Study Examining the Perspectives of Recently Firearm-Injured People on News Media Reports of Firearm Violence

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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 the It’s All Journalism podcast to discuss research she led that was published in the journal Social Science and Medicine Qualitative Research in Health. The research, for the first time, uncovered the impact of news media reports of interpersonal firearm violence presented through an episodic lens on recently firearm-injured people.