PBS News Student Reporting Labs, our journalism training program, takes us to a family farm in Upper Marlborough, Maryland, to meet Cameron Oglesby. They bring you the story of her family’s struggle to hold onto their land, which inspired her to want to tell stories of environmental justice.
Press
Virginia’s 1924 racial segregation law targeted Native Americans for decades
This article was developed in collaboration with PBS News Student Reporting Labs, a national youth journalism training program.
VPM
Youth Media and the Future of News
In my 16 years building the PBS News Student Reporting Labs (SRL), I’ve never been more anxious about the future. Not only is journalism shedding jobs and desperately searching for new business models while press freedoms melt away, but the majority of young people view the news media as “boring,” “biased,” and “bad.” Eighty-four percent of teenage respondents characterized it using those words in a recent report from the News Literacy Project.
Nieman Reports
Media Studies Student Co-Produces Stories for PBS Program
Sitting in her homeroom class during her first year at Westview High School, Roury Fitzpatrick was captivated by the morning newscast put on by her school. She had never watched the news much growing up, but it was then that she decided she wanted to pursue broadcast journalism.
CSUSM
Collaborator Spotlight: Building Science Communication Skills with PBS News Student Reporting Labs
An important but often overlooked aspect of high-quality scientific research is communication. How do we communicate science in an accessible, accurate way that everyone—scientists and non-scientists alike—can understand? LabXchange’s newest collaborator, PBS News Student Reporting Labs, builds learners’ skills at the intersection of journalism and science communication.