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SRL Founder’s Note: Your questions about PBS

By Leah Clapman, SRL Founder & Executive Director Dear Student Reporting Labs community, Amid the flood of news in the past few weeks, our team has been fielding a stream of questions about PBS, SRL’s funding and what we’re hearing from educators and teens. In my quarter-century here… Read More

APPLY FOR THE 2025 SRL SUMMER ACADEMY

March 14, 2025 Calling all high school student journalists!  Collaborate with other young storytellers at the PBS News SRL Summer Academy, an all-expenses paid week of journalism training and reporting stories with the Student Reporting Labs team. This year’s program will be held just outside… Read More

2025 Teacher Workshop: Registration Now Open

Join us for a (FREE!!) immersive weekend workshop from July 25th–27th at the WETA/PBS News headquarters in Arlington, VA. This year’s Teacher Workshop is all about streamlining storytelling: what strategies can we apply to the production process to help students hone their perspective, refine their creative process, and… Read More

Announcing SRL’s first College Climate Reporting Fellows

PBS News Student Reporting Labs is thrilled to introduce the ten college student journalists who have been selected to report stories about young people working to create solutions to respond to the climate crisis and other environmental issues. This spring, these college climate reporting fellows will work in teams to produce three video stories related to student advocacy efforts, environmental education initiatives, youth-led community programming, and more. This is the first time SRL has offered a reporting fellowship for college students.  Read More

Meet SRL’s 2025 Winter Academy Fellows!

From January 2-6, 13 students will spend five days in Los Angeles, Calif. producing news stories with the SRL team for the second annual PBS News Student Reporting Labs (SRL) Winter Academy in collaboration with PBS SoCal. As fellows, students will gain… Read More