The debate over the health risks of high school football has escalated since three student players died in a week. PBS NewsHour’s Student Reporting Labs talk to the football team at T.C. Williams High School in Virginia for their response. Then Gwen Ifill sits down with Steven Broglio, director of the NeuroSport Research Laboratory at the University of Michigan to discuss the risks to young athletes. Read More
By a two-to-one margin, Americans disapprove of the way the NFL has handled domestic violence incidents involving its players, according to a poll conducted by ABC News and Marist college. The NewsHour's Student Reporting Labs team asked high school students if professional athletes should be considered role models. Read More
SRL storytellers from Michigan and Texas told important national stories about economics and agriculture this year, and they are getting recognized for their work. Read More
Children’s rights advocates Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan and Kailash Satyarthi of India, who both campaign for giving children access to an education and against their exploitation for financial gain, won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. Read More
I didn't expect that being named a member of the inaugural class of PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs All-Stars would lead me to a White House Q&A with the executive director of the Joining Forces initiative and a one-on-one conversation with presidential debate moderator and Read More
When Karin McKemey, my television teacher at Fort Mill High, notified me that I had been chosen for the PBS Student Reporting Lab All-Stars program, I was beyond ecstatic. And unbeknownst to me at that point, I only knew some of what lay ahead. It was an opportunity of a lifetime with was so much more involved than I could ever imagine. Ms. McKemey was fully aware, but she wanted to let most of what I was about to experience come as a surprise. Read More
The NewsHour's network of Student Reporting Labs explore how the shooting of Michael Brown and the violent aftermath affected teen's views of justice and race in America. Student reporters found responses ranging from frustration and confusion to a sense of promise for the future. Read More
This Friday, the city of Chicago will lay to rest its youngest fatal shooting victim this year. Nine-year-old Antonio Smith was fatally shot at least four times in a South Side backyard just blocks away from his home, according to the Chicago Tribune. Since the summer of 2012, when the city recorded the nation's highest homicide count, shootings have become a large part of an ongoing discussion about relations between the police and residents, neighborhood safety and gun control legislation. Read More
Middle and high school students from around the country earned a trip to Washington, D.C. and the White House by distinguishing themselves in the PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs program. The 11 “All-Star” students, selected from dozens of submissions, traveled from as far as Hawaii to participate in four days of workshops and sightseeing in the nation’s capital. Read More
In August, teachers and public media mentors joined the PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs to participate in the #SRLbootcamp2014 located in the Washington D.C. area. The bootcamp's goal was to provide teaching tools to help foster the next generation of journalists through media literacy in the classroom. The groups were tasked with the challenge of producing character profiles of local artists. Here are their final results. Read More