The PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs (SRL), in partnership with MediaWise, will host Face the Facts: Election 2020 Youth Town Hall, a one-hour, virtual youth town hall streaming on NewsHour digital platforms on October 6 at… Read More
Arlington, Va.––PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs (SRL) has selected three outstanding student journalists for its inaugural Health Video Fellowship this fall. The application is still open for winter and spring candidates. Students selected for the inaugural fall fellowship are Andrea Salazar Lopez, of Beaverton… Read More
Arlington, Va. – As schools all over the country and world return to the 2020-2021 academic year in different ways, the PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs (SRL) is releasing its 2020-2021 Student Projects for immediate and wide use by educators, students and the general public. … Read More
Arlington, Va.–– PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs (SRL) awarded grants to three local PBS stations for youth engagement events around the 2020 election earlier this March. Montana PBS, PBS SoCal |KCET, and… Read More
Washington, DC — More than two dozen middle and high school students across the country participated in a special virtual fellowship with PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs (SRL) this spring and summer where they worked with news professionals… Read More
By SRL Founder, Leah Clapman July 2020 What’s a word that describes being all fired up with ideas and yet exhausted mentally and spiritually? Pre-pandemic, I would have given myself a pep talk: “The work is too important. Shake it off and focus!” But over the past… Read More
Washington, D.C.–– PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs (SRL) has partnered with WETA’s WELL BEINGS, a major public media campaign addressing the health needs of Americans, beginning with the Youth Mental Health Project. On Tuesday, July 14, 2020, the campaign will kick off with… Read More
Arlington, Va. — In early May, PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs (SRL) and ASCD (Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) launched #SeniorPortrait, a public awareness campaign to amplify the voices of millions of high school seniors whose class was dramatically disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic. … Read More
A picture of George Floyd is seen at a makeshift memorial put up by protesters at the corner where he got arrested, in the aftermath of a white police officer getting caught on a bystander’s video pressing his knee into Floyd’s neck, who later died at a hospital, in Minneapolis,… Read More
Arlington, Va.––Eight students from the Washington, D.C. area joined the PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs (SRL) for its annual Homegrown fellowship. This year’s fellows set out to create profiles on first-time voters, but when the coronavirus pandemic… Read More