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Announcements
The one-year program is geared toward early- to mid-career journalists looking to establish themselves as editors.
The new initiative is made up of a live help desk, tip sheets, and a soon-to-come data library.
The Trace is looking for a Director of Operations to play a pivotal role in developing our organization’s structure and capacity to meet future opportunities and challenges. At our growing nonprofit media organization, we’re building the only team of journalists…
The veteran fundraiser will lead efforts to secure new and sustaining revenues at the nonprofit newsroom dedicated to reporting on gun violence.
George LeVines and Aaron Mendelson join the Hub; Josiah Bates is The Trace’s new Great Lakes reporter.
The award coincides with finalist recognition from the Online News Association and the Institute for Nonprofit News.
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 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.
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.
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.
