Midwest Reporting Institute: Covering Gun Violence February 10-11, 2017 Chicago Public Media, Navy Pier 848 East Grand Avenue Chicago, IL 60611 Friday, February 10, 2017 8:00 – 8:30am
Registration and Breakfast
8:30 – 8:50am
Welcome and Agenda Overview Bruce Shapiro, Executive Director Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma
8:50 – 9:15am
Participant Introductions Brief introductions, including areas of interest and goals for the institute
9:15 – 10:15am
Gun Violence Through a Public Health Lens Daniel Webster, ScD, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health; Director of the Center for Gun Policy and Research, Johns Hopkins University
10:15 – 10:30am
Break
10:30 – 11:30am
Mental Illness and Guns Jeffrey Swanson, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Duke University
11:30 – 11:45am
Break
11:45 – 12:45pm
Women and Guns Susan B. Sorenson, PhD, Professor of Social Policy, Health and Societies, University of Pennsylvania; Director of the Evelyn Ortner Center on Family Violence
12:45-1:30pm
Lunch
1:30 – 2:40pm
Surviving Gun Violence: A Keynote Conversation with Joe Nocera, Reporter, Columnist, The New York Times and Shawn Harrington, Assistant Boys Basketball Coach, Marshall High School Moderated: Bruce Shapiro, Executive Director, Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma
2:40 – 3:00pm
Break
3:00 – 4:00pm
Individual and Collective Trauma: Coping with Homicide in African America Communities Tanya Sharpe, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Social Work, University of Maryland
4:00 – 4:15pm
Break
4:15 - 5:15pm
Gun Sales and Trafficking Harold Pollack, PhD, Helen Ross Professor, University of Chicago; Co-Director, University of Chicago Crime Lab
5:30 – 7:30pm
Networking Reception – Loews Chicago Downtown Hotel, Navy Pier 455 North Park Drive, Chicago, IL 60611
Saturday, February 11, 2017 8:30 – 9:00am
Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00am
Suicide and Guns Matthew Miller, ScD, MD, Professor of Epidemiology and Health Sciences, Northwestern University and Co-Director, Harvard Injury Control Research Center
10:00 – 10:15am
Break
10:15 – 11:30am
Reporting the “Gun Beat”: Story Behind the Story Frank Main Crime Reporter, Chicago Sun-Times Cheryl W. Thompson, Investigative Reporter, The Washington Post and Associate Professor, School of Media and Public Affairs, George Washington University Moderator: Bruce Shapiro, Executive Director, Dart Center
11:30 – 11:45am
Break
11:45 – 12:45pm
Gun Violence and Police Encounters: Reducing Lethal Outcomes Ellis Cose, Author and Contributing Writer, USAToday Eddie Bocanegra, Director, YMCA of Metro Chicago’s Youth Safety & Violence Prevention Initiative
12:45 - 1:30pm
Lunch
1:30 – 2:30pm
Telling the Hardest Stories: ‘Three Years of Nights’ Peter Nickeas, Reporter, The Chicago Tribune
2:30 - 2:45pm
Break
2:45 - 3:45pm
Keynote conversation with Alex Kotlowitz, Author of There Are No Children Here
3:45 - 4:00pm
Break
4:00 - 4:45pm
Taking it Home: Full Group Discussion Moderator: Bruce Shapiro, Executive Director, Dart Center
4:45pm
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