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
Kim Chexnayder, a member of the inaugural SRL All-Stars Class, is covering President Barack Obama's visit to Kansas City where he will deliver a speech on the economy. Follow her journey here. Read More
What happens when a group of teens turn their cameras on high-school football players, captive flamingos and lunch meats? This year, as part of the Student Reporting Labs program, the PBS NewsHour challenged youth journalists to pitch, produce, shoot and edit their own videos. From Detroit to Newark… Read More
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
The West Virginia State Board of Education invited Richwood High School, a PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Lab from Richwood, West Virginia, to its June meeting to present a video they produced about the school's improvement process. Read More
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
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
Lauren Blaine Fulmer, Congressman Michael McCaul's Field Director, (L) presents Pflugerville High School student Kennedy Huff (R) with a congressional award. Congratulations to Pflugerville High School junior Kennedy Huff. Read More
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