It’s the Friday news roundup! In today’s episode, host Trenae Nuri is joined by freelance journalist Ben Seal and Philadelphia Inquirer real estate reporter Jake Blumgart, to discuss a new study from Temple University Hospital that found breaking news coverage on gun violence can be harmful for victims, how the city’s real estate development may slow down this year and how workers made Eeva the first independent unionized restaurant in the city. 

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‘Like I’m a nobody’: Breaking news coverage of shootings is dehumanizing and delays progress, per new Temple study

Real estate development in Philly likely to slow this year given interest rate uncertainty

Workers at Eeva in Kensington have unionized

Philly’s stray cat population, estimated at 400,000 pre-pandemic, has stayed relatively stable thanks to a grassroots network

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