May 23, 2025 By: Anthony Payne Nothing beats hands-on, guided learning, face-to-face. Outside of our larger programs like the Summer Academy and Teacher Workshop, we look for as many opportunities as possible to collaborate IRL and make video… Read More
Founders Note: Congress has voted to end federal funding for PBS… what’s next? (updated July 18, 2025) Dear SRL community, As you’ve seen by now, Congress has voted to cut federal funding for public media, including funds that support PBS… Read More
April 2, 2025 The fifth season of PBS News Student Reporting Labs’ Edward R. Murrow-award winning podcast about the teenage experience, On Our Minds will launch April 16 and explore the question: who inspires you? This season will… Read More
March 26, 2025 AI Unlocked is a new AI Literacy curriculum from Poynter’s MediaWise Teen Fact CheckingNetwork and PBS News Student Reporting Labs (SRL). Released today, this five-part series covers what generative AI… Read More
March 19, 2025 By: Anthony Payne It’s become a tradition for PBS News Student Reporting Labs to ring in the spring season by heading down to the Austin Convention Center in Texas for SXSW EDU. This four-day conference… Read More
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
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
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
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
This fall, the SRL team was active all over the map speaking at conferences, covering events, and spreading the word about how to get involved with our programs! Here’s the run down on where we’ve been and what we’ve been up to lately. Read More