Trace Media, Inc.

The Trace is an independent, nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization dedicated to expanding public understanding of gun violence in the United States. There is an urgent need for the knowledge that public interest journalism can provide, because in this case one problem — America’s epidemic rates of shooting deaths and injuries, which leave 33,000 people killed annually and another 79,000 wounded — is compounded by another: a shortage of information about the issue. 

It is The Trace’s mission to close that deficit through daily reporting, investigations, analysis, and commentary on the policy, politics, culture, and business of guns in America.