Media Coverage

Complete list of all media coverage by year

• 2023 Media coverage
  • Associated Press – Nashville school shooter’s writings reignite debate over releasing material written by mass killers
  • Associated Press – Police say 17-year old killed sixth grader, wounded five in Perry, Iowa school shooting
  • Ashland Times Gazette – AU to welcome Jillian Peterson, co-author of highly-acclaimed ‘The Violence Project’
  • Barron – Shock turns to disbelief in mass shooting-hit Asian communities
  • Bloomberg News – Red Flag Laws are the answer 
  • Business Insider Africa – Most mass shooters in the US are men, but the Nashville school shooting shows that statistics don’t always tell the whole story
  • CBS News – A look into the traits of a mass shooter
  • CBS News – Maine gunman is the latest mass shooter with a military background. Experts explain the connection.
  • CNN with Abby Phillip – https://video.snapstream.net/Play/6VsT7eePGtOnmdiVHjR2R5?accessToken=tbpghl7q1682
  • CNN with Jake Tapper – The Violence Project’s Jillian Peterson
  • CNN with Kaitlan Collins – Louisville mass shooting 
  • C-Span Washington Journal – Mass shootings & gun violence in America
  • First Post – 17-year-old behind shooting at Iowa school: Why are more adolescents picking up guns in the US?
  • Forbes – California mass shooting suspects were older men – here’s how rare that is
  • The Guardian – Older suspects in California shootings defy typical mass shooter profile
  • The Guardian – I wept for Ken: Why men have the most to gain from watching Barbie
  • The Harvard Gazette – Psychologist examines genesis of online groups of sexual embittered men, why some turn violent
  • The Hill – ‘Back to school’ has new dangers for students this year
  • History Behind News Podcast – Psychology & Lives of Mass Shooters
  • Insider – The Monterey Park gunman was one of the oldest mass shooters in US history. Here’s why it’s so rare to see elderly gunmen
  • Insider – Most mass shooters are almost always men, experts say
  • K12 Dive – Real or hoax? Intention of 40% of school shooting threats unknown
  • KARE 11 – Minnesota schools found more guns post-pandemic
  • LA Times – Monterey Park suspect is oldest shooter in recent history
  • Minnesota Public Radio – New law allows Minnesota students to opt out of shooter drills
  • Minnesota Public Radio – Do school resource officers make schools safer? Experts say they’re not sure
  • NACU Podcast – Stopping the next mass shooting
  • New York Times – The signs were all there. Why did no one stop the Maine shooter?
  • New York Times – Most mass shooting suspects are male
  • Newsweek – Covenant school shooter raises concerns about mass shooter profile
  • Newsweek – Dylan Butler transgender claims flood social media
  • Marshall Project – Yes, it’s getting worse: New data shows mass shootings are more frequent
  • Minnesota Public Radio – Do school resource officers make schools safer? Experts say they’re not sure.
  • MSN – Dire warnings about main gunman didn’t stop his rampage
  • MSNBC – Mental illness and mass shootings
  • National Public Radio – 74 people have been killed or injured by guns at American schools this year
  • National Public Radio – The suspected Monterey Park attacker was 72. Here’s why older shooters are rare
  • NBC News – Monterey Park suspect may have been targeting his ex-wife in the mass shooting, mayor says
  • New York Times – 7 dead in shooting in Half Moon Bay
  • New York Times – Maine mass shooting is America’s 8th, and deadliest, this year
  • New York Times – The signs were all there. Why did no one stop the Maine shooter?
  • Reason Magazine – No Matter the ‘Details on These Shootings,’ Biden Says, Congress Should Respond by Banning ‘Assault Weapons
  • San Francisco Chronicle – California shooting suspects are senior citizens: Here’s why that’s so rare
  • Seattle Times– Suspect’s age stands out among mass shooters
  • Star Tribune – Modern day machine guns: switch devices are making guns deadlier than ever
  • The Times UK – Can these scientists stop America’s next mass shooting?
  • The Trace – The lasting legacy of the Columbine massacre
  • The Trace – A guide to understanding mass shootings in America
  • USA Today – California mass shooting suspect is oldest in US recorded history, researchers say
  • USA Today – Why women mass shooters are a rare occurrence 
  • Wall Street Journal – Monterey Park Suspected Gunman Was Oldest Mass Shooter in Modern History
  • Washington Post – 11th victim dies after Monterey Park shooting as police explore more theories
  • WGN News Chicago – Author of ‘The Violence Project’ discusses mass shooting in Maine
  • Wired Tech Support – Criminologist answers true crime questions from Twitter
  • Yahoo News – The Monterey Park suspected mass shooter was 72. Here’s why that’s uncommon
• 2022 Media coverage
  • ABC This Week in Australia – Mass shootings in the United States
  • American Psychological Association Podcast – How to stop mass shootings with Jillian Peterson
  • Ann Arbor News – Parents of Oxford killer don’t want experts to tell jury they could have intervened
  • Associated Press – Buffalo is latest mass shooting by gunman wearing body armor
  • Big Think – The 4 risk factors behind someone becoming a mass shooter
  • Boston Globe – What drives mass shooters? Grievance, despair, and anger are more likely triggers than mental illness, experts say
  • CBC News – How intervening early on the ‘pathway to violence’ could help prevent mass shootings
  • CBC News – Beyond gun control, how many mass shootings could be prevented
  • CBS News – Face the Nation
  • CNN with Jake Tapper – Mass shooting expert on what could prevent future attacks
  • CNN with Michael Smerconish – How society can stop mass shooters
  • CNN – Mass shooters are increasingly attacking ‘soft targets’ such as supermarkets. Experts say securing them will be difficult
  • CNN – Prosecutors seek to introduce evidence Michigan shooter’s parents created a pathway to violence
  • Court TV Documentary – Rampage Killers
  • Detroit News – Experts in Crumbley’s parents case say there are opportunities to intervene on the pathway to violence
  • Dr. Phil Episode – Characteristics commonly found in mass shooters
  • Education Weekly – Preventing student violence: 3 key takeaways
  • Education Weekly – Responding to student threats: Schools wrestle with how to prevent violence
  • The Gist Podcast – The project that collects and projects violence
  • Global News – ‘Almost unbelievable:’ How disbelief may have shaped RCMP response to N.S. shooting spree
  • The Guardian – US mass shootings are getting deadlier and more common
  • Hamline News – Dr. Jillian Peterson wins Minnesota Book Award
  • Independent – What we actually know about mass school shootings in the US – and the gunmen who carry them out
  • KNX Radio LA – Replacement theory and the Buffalo shooting
  • KSMQ Public Television – Responding to shooting threats: Strategies for schools
  • LA Times – A smarter approach to active shooter drills
  • Marshall Project – What you need to know about the rise is US mass shootings
  • Mental Health Today- Radicalization and mental health: Just how connected are they?
  • Minneapolis Saint Paul Magazine – Winners of the 2022 Minnesota Book Awards
  • Minneapolis Saint Paul Magazine – Jillian Peterson does double duty
  • Minnesota Public Radio – Winners announced for 2022 Minnesota Book Awards
  • MSNBC – The Mehdi Hasan Show
  • MSNBC – Research identifies common profiles for mass shooters
  • Nancy Grace Crime Stories – July 4 shooting – Blood, carnage, horrific
  • National Institute of Justice – Five facts about mass shootings in K-12 schools
  • National Public Radio – 2 mass shootings – 1700 miles apart but bound by startling similarities
  • National Public Radio – 2 professors, tracking patterns, try to predict who might carry out a mass shooting
  • NBC News – A New Mexico man convinced the FBI he was not a threat. Then he carried out a school shooting
  • NBC News – Texas gunman warned of Uvalde school shooting in private Facebook message
  • News Nation – How to prevent a mass shooting? Police options are limited
  • New Works Network – The Violence Project: How to stop a mass shooting epidemic
  • New York Times – What do most mass shooters have in common? They bought their guns legally
  • New York Times – A disturbing new pattern in mass shootings: Young assailants
  • New York Times – We need hope to combat violence. That won’t arrive without action.
  • New York Times – The mass shootings where stricter gun laws might have made a difference
  • New York Times – What are the real warning signs of a mass shooting?
  • New Yorker – What makes a mass shooter?
  • New Yorker Radio Hour – What makes a mass shooter?
  • Newsweek – Nearly half of mass shooters leaked plans to someone, like family: Study
  • PBS Newshour – Buffalo massacre highlights how mass shooters are able to obtain weapons legally
  • PBS Newshour – 3 things to know about America’s relentless gun violence
  • PBS Newshour – What research says about identifying people who might commit mass shootings
  • Pioneer Press – Minnesota Book Awards honor authors and artists in return to live ceremony
  • Politico – Two professors found what creates a mass shooter. Will politicians pay attention?
  • Psychiatric Times – Are school shooters psychopaths?
  • Red Table Talk – Extreme violence: Inside the minds of people who hate
  • Reuters – Death toll from mass shootings in United States is rising, study finds
  • Reuters – ‘Tsunami’ of woes: U.S. school shooting spike amid pandemic stress
  • Science Vs. Podcast – Mass shootings: How do we stop them?
  • Star Tribune – For one mom and army veteran, MOAs handling of shooting was a failure
  • Star Tribune – Mass shootings cannot, need not be the nations default
  • Time Magazine – The “good guys with guns” keep failing to stop mass shootings
  • Time Magazine – The Parkland gunman’s sentencing trial will decide if he gets the death penalty
  • Tommy Tucker – New Orleans Radio – What do we know about mass shootings?
  • Twin Cities Almanac – The Violence Project: How to stop a mass shooting epidemic
  • USA Today 5 Things Podcast – An epidemic of gun violence
  • Voyage Minnesota Magazine – Community Highlights: Meet Jillian Peterson of The Violence Project
  • Wall Street Journal – Mass shootings are rising in the U.S., new study shows
  • Washington Post – Mass violence takes toll of Americans’ psyches
  • Washington Post – Young men, guns, and the prefrontal cortex
  • Washington Post – The staggering scope of U.S. gun deaths goes far beyond mass shootings
  • WGN News Chicago – The Violence Project: How to stop a mass shooting epidemic
• 2021 Media coverage
  • ABC News – Guys and Guns: Why men are behind the vast majority of America’s gun violence
  • Associated Press – Haunted by violence, Colorado confronts painful history (reprinted nationally)
  • Associated Press – Idaho shooting: Very few school incidents committed by girls (reprinted nationally)
  • Associated Press – How do we prevent mass shootings? There’s a new website to lead the way (reprinted nationally)
  • CNN – Locks, lights, out of sight: How lockdown drills affect America’s children
  • CNN – Newsroom with Jim Sciutto
  • CNN – Newsroom with Pamela Brown
  • CNN – ‘Constant state of anxiety.’ Yet another school shooting takes its psychological toll
  • C-Span – The Violence Project Book Launch
  • Global News – How ending child abuse and improving mental health care could prevent mass shootings
  • Guardian – US saw estimated 4,000 extra murders in 2020 amid surge in daily gun violence
  • Insider – With schools returning to in person learning, the threat of classroom shootings follows. Here’s how experts say we can prevent them from happening
  • KUNM (NPR New Mexico) – No More Normal: Gun violence
  • Limestone Press – Preparation versus security in preventing mass shootings
  • Mental Health Today – Handling associations between violence crime and mental illness with responsibility
  • Minnesota Public Radio – New research finds armed officers increases likelihood of mortality at school shootings
  • Monitor on Psychology – Mental illness and violence: Debunking myths, addressing realities
  • National Public Radio All Things Considered – School shootings: It’s hard to spot the warning signs. Prevention steps can help
  • National Public Radio – Why nearly all mass shooters are men
  • National Public Radio Indianapolis – Gun violence and threats are on the rise at Indiana schools
  • NBC News – Experts believe a contagion effect could be tied to recent mass shootings
  • New York Times – Some U.S. schools close after shooting rumors on social media
  • New York Times – Mass shootings in public spaces had become less frequent during the pandemic
  • New York Times – I don’t want to hit my children, I don’t want to hit anybody
  • New York Times – A heavily armed man at a grocery store adds to anxiety in Atlanta
  • New York Times – First Atlanta, then Boulder: Two mass shootings in a week
  • People Magazine – After a year without mass shootings in American public places, there have been 2 in 6 days
  • Pioneer Press – In a time of pandemic and riot, crime was up 15 percent in St. Paul last year
  • PNJ News – “The Violence Project” book investigates mass shootings in order to find solutions
  • Publishers Weekly – How to Prevent a Tragedy
  • Real Crime Stories Podcast – How to stop a mass shooting epidemic
  • Seattle’s Morning News – Armed officers triple mortality in school shootings, study finds
  • Star Tribune – Two Minnesota professors have devoted their careers to researching mass shooters
  • TBS Radio This Morning (South Korea) – Discussion of the Michigan school shooting and how to avoid such incidents from happening
  • Teen Vogue – Supreme Court Second Amendment case puts gun control laws at risk
  • The 74 Million – ALICE, American’s most controversial active-shooter training that teaches kids to fight back, saves dozens of lives in Oxford HS attack, CEO Claim
  • The 74 Million – After a year without mass school shootings, experts sound the alarm about ‘return to normal’
  • The 74 Million – Parkland School Shooting Suspect To Plead Guilty to Murdering 17 in Florida Attack, Moving Case Closer to Death Penalty Decision
  • The Trace – The way we think about mass shootings ignores many black victims
  • USA Today – Immunization not ammunition: School safety means fewer guns
  • USA Today – For the COVID pandemic we wear masks. For the pandemic of gun violence, what do we do?
  • Vice News – How to prevent the next mass shooting
  • Vice News – The Shooter’s Wife: Noor Salman, wife of the pulse nightclub gunman, is ready to speak
  • Vox’s Today Explained Podcast – The Shooter’s Parents
  • Wall Street Journal – Boulder shooting suspect charged with 10 counts of murder
  • Wall Street Journal – America’s failed attempted to ban assault weapons
  • Washington Post – As gun violence spreads to small towns, one suburb contends with a mass shooting’s aftermath
  • Washington Post – Rising and spreading murder rates means it’s time to act on guns
  • WBEZ Radio Chicago – Atlanta, Boulder tragedies are stark reminder mass shootings may be part of our ‘return to normal’
  • Wisconsin Public Radio – How to stop the mass shooting epidemic, according to researchers who have chronicled every mass shooting in the US
  • Wisconsin Public Radio – How schools respond to social media threats
  • WWL Radio New Orleans – Mass shootings in the US
• 2020 Media coverage
  • ABC Tampa – New database tracks commonalities among mass shooters
  • Associated Press – Database of mass shooters revised and expanded
  • Bloomberg News – Virus job losses, evictions seen risking mass attacks in future
  • Business Insider – Database of mass shooters revised and expanded
  • Finanical Times – Database of mass shooters revised and expanded
  • KETK Fox News Austin – No mass shootings in the U.S. since the pandemic started – what about once its over?
  • LA Times – How many mass shootings might have been prevented by stronger gun laws?
  • Minnesota Public Radio – Do police officers belong in schools?
  • NBC News – How moms are quietly passing gun safety policy through school boards
  • Newsy – Minnesota calls for increased oversight of police training goals
  • Post Bulletin – NEA Report: Just say no to active shooter drills
  • Star Tribune – Minneapolis police, merchants wary of rise in business burglaries
  • The Takeaway – Parents are fighting gun violence through their school boards
  • The Trace – 2020 will be a big year for the gun issue
  • The Trace – Expanded mass shootings database fleshes out the characteristics of perpetrators
  • Vice News – This woman survived a mass shooting and is working to prevent the next
  • Voices of America – History of mass shooters
  • Washington Post – In a year of pain, one silver lining: Fewer mass shootings
  • Yahoo News UK – US gun violence: Too many people have died in 2020 – and COVID played a larger part than you think
• 2019 Media coverage
  • ABC News – Campaign says new gun control measures may pose political problem for Trump
  • Associated Press – Minnesota Violence Project Aims to Understand Mass Shootings
  • Associated Press – Experts: Minnesota strategy on school gun attacks wrong
  • The Atlantic – Why many mass shooters are ‘loners’
  • Business Insider – Police are trying to arrest their way out of a mass shooting epidemic, and experts warn it could have dire consequences
  • CBS News – Video game makers face backlash after El Paso shooting
  • CBS News – Mental Illness isn’t main driver of mass shootings, experts say
  • CBS This Morning – Commonalities found among mass shooters
  • CNN – Companies can use VR to train employees for mass shootings. But should they?
  • Daily Mail – Almost all US mass shooters since 1966 have four things in common
  • The Daily Wire – Report details stunning amount of free publicity media gives mass shooters
  • FiveThirtyEight – Why nonprofits can’t research gun violence as well as the feds
  • The Hill – Mass shooters are contagious. How can they be stopped
  • Huffington Post – Mass shooters seek ‘validation’ for their murderous attacks, say experts for DOJ
  • Inside Higher Ed – Mass Shooter Database?
  • Market Watch – Can anything be done to prevent gun violence at work?
  • Medium – Why isn’t there already an algorithm to predict school shooters?
  • National Public Radio – Mass shootings can be contagious, research shows
  • National Public Radio – 1A with Joshua Johnson – How can we prevent workplace shootings?
  • NBC News – How suicide prevention may help stop mass killers before they start shooting
  • NBC News National – Mass shootings: Experts say violence is contagious, and 24/7 news cycle doesn’t help
  • NBC News National – Do Something!’: Mass shootings in Texas and Ohio stun nation: The Morning Rundown
  • NBC News MSN – Mass Shootings: Experts say violence is contagious, and 24/7 news cycle doesn’t help
  • New York Times – A common trait among mass killers: hatred toward women
  • Newsweek – Gen Z, millennials twice as concerned about active shooters as baby boomers, survey
  • ProPublica – Aggression detectors: The unproven, invasive surveillance technology school’s are using to monitor students
  • Reader’s Digest – Years of research finds that most school shooters have 4 things in common
  • Time Magazine – Have police really thwarted more mass shootings since El Paso and Dayton, or are we just paying closer attention?
  • The Trace – Daily Bulletin: The FBI Opened a Domestic Terror Investigation into the Gilroy Shooting
  • USA Today – A New York village averted a potential school shooting. Parents are still furious.
  • Vice – Nearly all mass shooters since 1966 have had 4 things in common
  • Wall Street Journal – Lost in life, El Paso suspect found a dark world online
  • Wall Street Journal – Mass shootings raise questions about security and training
  • Washington Post – Trump blamed mental illness for mass shootings. The reality is more complicated
  • Washington Post – Politicians blame video games for the El Paso shooting. It’s an old claim that’s not backed by research