PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs (SRL) will host “Our New Normal: How Teens are Redefining School Life,” an hour-long event on PBS NewsHour’s YouTube channel on Tuesday, January 25 at 7pm ET, with an encore presentation on the WORLD Channel. From vaccination mandates to book bans, social media policies to teaching history and race,… Read More
November 22, 2021 Arlington, Va.— PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs (SRL) has been named the recipient of funding from the Google News Lab to further its efforts to bridge generational digital divides and strengthen media literacy. Over the next 18 months, SRL will create… Read More
By Jaylah Moore-Ross This year’s Gwen Ifill Legacy Fellows spent the summer working with their local PBS stations to expand their journalism skills and cover impactful stories about their communities. Delta Flores, Shakyna Golphin, and Micah Martin interned with station leaders and producers at… Read More
November 12, 2021 Arlington, Va.— PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs (SRL), with support from the Mott Foundation, has made its award-winning curriculum and lesson plans available on the Mizzen by Mott app to reach afterschool program leaders across the country. SRL will support… Read More
Media Literacy Week is hosted every year by the National Association for Media Literacy Education, or NAMLE, to underline the importance of teaching media literacy. This year’s theme is: Access, Analyze, Evaluate, Create and Act. Check out the resources below from Student Reporting Labs to help you… Read More
September 21 , 2021 Arlington, Va.— PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs (SRL) released StoryMaker, a new, free, digital tool that will serve as a one-stop shop for educators and students interested in engaging with SRL’s signature youth journalism and storytelling curriculum and… Read More
PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs (SRL) announced the winners of the 2021 SRL Student Awards. The SRL Student Awards honor the work students accomplish each school year. To determine winners, SRL conducted a nomination process with its team of youth media producers who watched all student-produced pieces… Read More
Washington, D.C. – PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs (SRL) is excited to announce its 2021 virtual professional development series for educators around the country. This event replaces our annual workshop in Washington, D.C., due to coronavirus pandemic. This year, selected teachers will work alongside the… Read More
By Sydney Johnson June 30, 2021 Arlington, Va.—Two dozen middle and high school students embarked on a two-week virtual fellowship with PBS Newshour Student Reporting Labs (SRL) from June 14th to June 25th, where they worked in teams… Read More
Summer is here, cicadas are showing up on DC’s weather radar, and most of us are straggling across the school year finish line exhausted and burnt out. So I wanted to share where I’m getting my energy and hope these days: student storytelling… Read More