The following article is adapted from PBS News Student Reporting Labs’ On Our Minds: Election 2024 podcast. It is published here with permission as part of a collaboration between Student Reporting Labs and Teen Vogue.
A new documentary from PBS News Student Reporting Labs features young Americans from across the country talking about how gun violence has impacted them.
The film called Run, Hide, Fight: Growing up under the gun is not only about young people but was created by 14 student journalists reporting from five cities.
The documentary airs on WKAR HDTV November 14 at 10:30 p.m.
WKAR’s Sophia Saliby spoke to Brianna and Alexis Schmidt, sisters and Michigan State University students who produced a segment for the documentary, about the project.
Ethan Rodriguez is still haunted by disturbing images of gun violence he saw growing up in Kensington, a Philly neighborhood often described as “the Badlands.” The 21-year-old remembers walking home from school and watching a group of men argue. The altercation escalated, and then he heard gunshots.
After spending nine days creating a news segment on climate change for PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs 2024 Summer Academy, Nuha Hussein is already looking ahead to her next project.
Ethan Rodriguez is a student journalist and contributor to the Student Reporting Labs documentary on the impacts of gun violence on young Americans called Run, Hide, Fight: Growing up under the gun. He wrote an op-ed focusing on his personal experiences growing up with gun violence.