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Educators learn media literacy by producing artist profiles

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

SRL Spotlight: Meredith DeMarois

Meredith DeMarois, a member of the inaugural SRL All-Stars Class, will be documenting her internship experience at MontanaPBS. Follow her journey here. Week 2: This past week I was able to focus on the thing I'm best at and the thing I'm worst at. Read More

SRL Spotlight: Gabriel Gamiño

Gabriel Gamiño, a member of the inaugural SRL All-Stars Class, will be documenting his intership experience at Arizona PBS. Follow his journey here. Week 5: Read More

Is integration important to today’s students?

To mark the 60th anniversary of the Supreme Court's landmark Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation decision, we asked our network of Student Reporting Labs across the country if integration should be a national goal. Here's a sampling of what they had to say. Read More

Student reporters honored as #NextGen public media producers

What do an eighth grade news anchor from Newark, N.J., a three-time student Emmy winner from Michigan and Montana's Journalist of the Year scholarship winner all have in common? These students, along with eight other youth journalists from across the country, are this year's PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs All-Stars. Read More