McClain briefed journalists in January 2024: ‘Gun Violence Is A Human Story:’ Advocates Appeal For Empathetic Reporting.

Oronde McClain is the newsroom liaison at the Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting, a Stoneleigh Foundation Emerging Leader Fellow and a gun violence survivor. He is leading a new PCGVR project called the Survivor Connection, which will identify, recruit, prepare and support survivors of firearm violence who will make themselves available to local journalists via a secure, digital directory. Oronde previously produced a short documentary for PCGVR’s Credible Messenger Reporting Project, call “They don’t care about us. Or do they?”