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The Inevitable News
Agency Area 23, An IPG Health Company / New York + Ritmika Audio Arts / São Paulo + Brooklyn Sports Page / Brooklyn + Stellar Printing, Inc. / Long Island City
Category
Innovation / Press
Annual ID
ADC101_ADV007G
About the Work
Newspapers report on over 100 guns deaths every day in the United States, and it’s always the same story. By writing about shootings as if they were filling out a template, journalists are desensitizing us to these events when they could be using their platform to create change.
To show journalists the flaws in their gun violence coverage, we created The Inevitable News, a newspaper that covers every mass shooting in the United States over the last 3 years—with one single article.
The typical newspaper branding feels familiar: black and white copy populating the pages of newsprint, contrasted by the handwritten red details of the shooting event. This shows how journalists routinely fill in the particulars of a shooting event on the spot rather than shaping the story to the specific needs of the community they are writing about.
To make The Inevitable News feel authentic, copies were printed on real newsprint and distributed to branded dispensers across New York City.
Further, we personalized copies of The Inevitable News to mirror the brand guidelines of the 10 of the biggest newspapers in the United States. These copies were sent to each publication’s editorial board, showing the impact of their routine coverage in the context of their paper. These copies also served as an invitation for journalists to the Gun Violence News Summit, a landmark event that brought together influential leaders representing the likes of The New York Times and The Washington Post to forever change the way their industry covers gun violence.
Working together, these leaders crafted the Gun Violence Coverage Commitment, an unprecedented agreement outlining the new standard for gun violence reporting.
2022 Awards
Total Points: 45
Gold Cube
Credits
Agency
Area 23, An IPG Health Company / New York
Production Company
Brooklyn Sports Page / Brooklyn
Stellar Printing, Inc. / Long Island City
Post Production Company
Ritmika Audio Arts / São Paulo
Art Director
Bruno Calçada
Emily Carman
Madeline Arch
Evan Schmidt
Copywriter
Patrick Egan
Tamika Berry
Chief Creative Officer
Tim Hawkey
Director
Christine Anikso
Executive Creative Director
Marcus Kawamura
Elliot Langerman
Executive Producer
Scott Roberts
Anna Lopez
Group Creative Director
Eduardo Tavares
Product Designer
Diego Canneto
Director, Technology
Bill Hanff
Executive Assistant
Greicy de Los Santos
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