Millennials ‘confused, appalled’ by racist SAE video
The 9-second internet video featuring members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity at the University of Oklahoma singing a racist chant has … Read More
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White House Student Film Festival honors Austin’s Wheelchair Challenge story
On a rainy day in 2013, Austin High School student Archer Hadley approached a school door and waited for someone to open it. As water gushed down his back, Hadley, who has cerebral palsy, asked himself, “Hey, I’ve been to a lot of public places that have automatic doors, why… Read More
Reporting Labs share stories of giving back with White House Student Film Festival
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
North Dakota Reporting Lab featured on local CBS news
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
Live from New York: It’s SRL on American Graduate Day
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
Giving back: stories of youth who are making a difference
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
Winners of SRL/STN Documentary Competition Announced
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
Political advertisers take notice: Millennials are not impressed
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
Students’ excitement to run for office tempered by politics
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
Youth reporters investigate how minimum wage, gender and social media affect politics
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