This year’s White House Student Film Festival asked students K-12 to submit short films about the meaning of “giving back”. And as luck would have it, youth journalists from our network of Student Reporting Labs recently tackled the same topic in… Read More
The students in chemistry teacher Renee Aalund's media class have traded Bunsen burners for cameras and beakers for lav mics. As the only school in North Dakota to participate in the PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs program, Turtle Mountain Community High School and its intrepid team of youth journalists have discovered a new way to tell the stories of their reservation town. Melinda Bolton from KXNews has the full story in this week's Eye on Education. Read More
What would you do if you were selected to be a youth correspondent during one of public media’s most important days of programming? The students of Philip’s Academy Charter School and Montclair Kimberley Academy in Newark, New Jersey, rose to that challenge, joining their Student Reporting Labs mentor Lauren Wanko of NJTV on… Read More
Illustration by Ruth Tam Giving back to your community is on most people’s to-do list, but takes time and commitment. For the holiday season, the PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs program asked our teen producers to find and tell stories of young people making a difference in their communities. Read More
In conjunction with the Student Television Network, the PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs program launched a national competition to identify collaborators to produce a documentary project. One school from each of the seven STN regions in the United States will work on a joint 30-minute documentary project during the school year. The topic of this year’s collaborative documentary is: school safety. Stories will show safety concerns are being addressed in different communities. Read More
Younger voters made a big difference for President Obama twice, but their numbers drop in midterm elections. Political editor Lisa Desjardins asks participants of NewsHour's Student Reporting Labs in Kentucky, Michigan and Colorado to watch and react to this year's political ads and explain what motivates them politically. Read More
In West Virginia, an 18-year-old is running for state delegate and would become one of the youngest lawmakers in the country. College freshman Saira Blair has already defeated an incumbent three times her age last month in the primary. PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs asked teens across the country for their reaction and whether they could ever imagine themselves running for office in the future. Read More
While young people across the country have been watching the midterm elections unfold via political ads, Daily Show parodies and social media, aspiring journalists with the PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs program have been producing election stories from within their own communities. Young Arkansans say minimum wage won't cut it Read More
When high school senior Devon Wood sits down at the dinner table with her parents they catch up on what’s happening at school or at the farm. But as of late, midterm elections — and politics in general — have dominated their evening conversations. Read More
Student Reporting Labs All-Star Kennedy Huff is used to working behind the scenes as a student reporter and videographer. Her role shifted, however, when her local PBS station, KLRU, asked her to help anchor their American Graduate Day. Read More