Tracking gun killings in the United States: an audio and visual essay

Funeral for JanMarcos Pena, 9, Mattapan boy who was shot and killed, police allege by his brother (Courtesy of the Boston Globe)

For this assignment I wanted to use audio, a medium that I am trying to learn. I had heard about the recent local story of the 9-year-old boy who had been shot and killed by his brother. I was looking to tie that into the larger national story about gun violence which is a subject that I have written a lot about and am researching for my Nieman project.

I wanted to provide information about how journalists and others have been trying to do the difficult work of gathering basic data about shootings. I had been following the Slate project.

Got the assignment completed on deadline but had some issues with loading soundcloud track onto wordpress.