by Kevin Fagan | San Francisco Chronicle
Monday, April 24, 2000
A study analyzing coverage of youth violence issues in California concludes that newspapers create a misleading and frightening picture of violence and its dangers to kids. The study, from BMSG, offers recommendations on how journalists can broaden their reporting from only asking what happened to investigating potential reasons such as gun accessibility to understand why it did.by Vincent Schiraldi | Los Angeles Times
Monday, November 22, 1999
Failure to put the real facts about kids' behavior into context has generated an unnecessary atmosphere of fear. The Justice Policy Institute's Vincent Schiraldi draws on Berkeley Media Studies Group research to show how out of sync media portrayals of youth violence are with actual violent crimes involving young people.by Katie Woodruff | The New York Times
Saturday, October 23, 1999
In this letter to the editor, BMSG's Katie Woodruff makes recommendations for suicide prevention. Among them: implementing technology to prevent guns from being used by anyone other than their lawful owner.by Lawrence Wallack, Mark Kaplan | The Oregonian
Wednesday, September 15, 1999
Far more people die from gun-related suicides than from gun-related homicides. And youth are more likely to die from self-inflicted gunshot wounds than from school shootings. Yet suicide can be prevented. As former BMSG director Lawrence Wallack and Portland State University associate professor Mark Kaplan show, limiting easy access to firearms is one way to make prevention possible.by Lawrence Wallack | The New York Times
Wednesday, September 01, 1999
Firearms continue to be a leading cause of preventable injury and death. Limiting gun access is key to reducing both homicides and suicides.by Arlene Notoro Morgan | The Philadelphia Inquirer
Monday, October 05, 1998
How can crime be prevented? What community resources are available to someone who is violent? What does crime cost a community? These are some of the questions that journalist and BMSG consultant Jane Stevens suggested could improve the Philadelphia Inquirer's reporting on violence after an audit found its crime stories lacking. The audit helped the Inquirer take a more solution-oriented approach to crime coverage.by Lori Dorfman | San Francisco Chronicle
Thursday, September 25, 1997
A recent Chronicle article makes clear the link between violence and poverty in Richmond, Calif. But, writes BMSG director Lori Dorfman, it leaves too many questions unanswered, namely, What are some potential solutions?by Bill Boyarsky | Los Angeles Times
Monday, September 15, 1997
While covering an LA-based liquor store for his regular column, one reporter set aside his preconceived notions of reporting on such places and took a note from BMSG's Reporting on Violence: a Handbook for Journalists, which recommends that journalists treat violence as an epidemic and investigate its causes, not just its aftermath.by Derrick Z. Jackson | Boston Globe
Wednesday, September 10, 1997
A study from Berkeley Media Studies Group, published in the American Journal of Public Health, found that 55 percent of news stories on youth involved violence, and 68 percent of stories about violence involved youth -- numbers that bear no resemblance to real rates of crime involving youth.by Lori Dorfman | Prevention Pipeline
Monday, September 01, 1997
Stories on alcohol rarely appear on network TV, local TV or in newspapers. There are several reasons why we should be concerned about the dearth of news on alcohol, which BMSG director Lori Dorfman explores in this article.
