The Student Reporting Labs program launched its inaugural March Media Madness competition this year, a chance for schools around the nation to get creative, compete against each other and make some fun videos. The participating schools were: Fraser High School, Fraser, MI Read More
Earlier this year, Student Reporting Labs welcomed 14 teachers from various Reporting Labs sites across the country to participate in our annual mini-conference. During their stay, teachers participated in several workshops and team-building discussions. In the end, the teachers felt renewed and excited, our team learned new ways to improve the program, and many long-lasting friendships were made. Read More
NewsHour Extra traveled to New York to meet with 9th graders in Adam Mendola's English class at Brooklyn Community Arts and Media high school. As a 2011-2012 Student Reporting Lab, the students are currently working on video projects about school engagment and retention. Read More
Three local news channels in St. Petersburg, Fla. recently reported on the video that John Hopkins Middle School students made for Student Reporting Labs about chronic fighting at their school. ABC Channel 11, CBS Channel 10 and FOX 13 all visited instructor Luanne Dietz's classroom and interviewed students about producing the video.[This video is no longer available.] Read More
The Macomb Daily, a newspaper serving Macomb County, Michigan, recently visited a Reporting Labs classroom at Fraser High School and created a video and article about the students. Read More
An in-depth article in the Tampa Bay Times looks at the students behind John Hopkins' Middle School's video, "Fighting Chance? Students Investigate Middle School Violence." Read More
Fraser High School's video "Dropping Out Impacts Michigan's Future" recently appeared in the Huffington Post's high school section. Read More
Students from Shenandoah, Iowa are busy making a video report about the Iowa Caucuses for Student Reporting Labs. Recently, they attended the famed first event in the presidential primaries and blogged about the experience at reportinglabs.tumblr.com. Read More
Student reporters at Granby High School, one of the 2011-2012 Student Reporting Labs sites, featured the program in an edition of their school newspaper, The Spectator. [Links are no longer available.] Read More
The Student Reporting Labs program is featured in the October 2011 issue of School Video News, a publication for broadcast journalism educators. Read More