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SRL Students Shine at Summer Internships

Four SRL students spent the summer with their local PBS Stations where they honed their journalism and video production skills. Two of the four students were recipients of SRL's inaugural Gwen Ifill Legacy Fellowship. Read More

SRL Station Success: August 2017

As a PBS Teacher Ambassador, Mekca Wallace-Spurgin of Iowa Public Television is working with local schools to find opportunities for collaboration. We asked her how IPTV's involvement with SRL is helping the station fulfill it's educational mission. Read More

2017: SRL Year in Review

Our Labs across the country have had an incredible year, with students producing original content that is both increasingly relevant and notably powerful. Read More

SRL and KQED team up to investigate student homelessness

Jacob Yanto, a recent graduate of SRL’s Hillsdale High School Lab in San Mateo, California, played a pivotal role in the newest episode of KQED’s “Above the Noise” on student homelessness by connecting the station to his friend Dante Wilson, who was homeless for 6 months in middle school. Read More

Stories produced by SRL Academy Fellows highlight communities in nation’s capital

Twenty-one exceptional young journalists and video storytellers from more than a dozen different states across the country gathered in Washington, D.C. this summer to sharpen their journalism, camera and editing skills at the annual Student Reporting Labs Academy. Paired with mentors, SRL fellows embarked on a journey to tell stories centered around individuals, businesses and communities… Read More

SRL Partner Station of the Month: June 2017

SRL reporter Isabel Evans interviews New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker while Carole Wacey of WNET looks on. WNET/NJTV We caught up with Carole Wacey, WNET’s vice president of education, this month to ask her how WNET and NJTV’s involvement with SRL has helped the station fulfill it’s educational… Read More