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Lois Beckett was part of a November 2019 National Press Foundation briefing on guns and violence. Beckett is a senior reporter for The Guardian, based in The Guardian’s West Coast bureau in Oakland, California. She covers gun violence, gun policy and the far-right in America and is the lead reporter on “Guns and Lies in America,” The Guardian’s dedicated series on gun violence and gun violence prevention in the Bay Area. Before she joined The Guardian in 2016 as the paper’s first dedicated gun violence reporter, Beckett was a reporter at ProPublica, where she covered gun policy and the intersection of data, technology and politics. Her 2018 “On the Media” episode “Face the Racist Nation,” about debates over journalists’ coverage of white supremacists, won a 2019 Mirror Award for the best single story on the media industry. Her ProPublica/Essence magazine story on post-traumatic stress disorder caused by gun violence, “Black America’s Invisible Crisis,” won a 2015 Deadline Award for public service and a National Association of Black Journalists Salute to Excellence Award in investigative journalism.