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Las Cruces High Graduate Serves As PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs Fellow

This summer, KRWG Public Media partnered with the PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs to offer a special experience for a Las Cruces student.

Xavier Dominguez recently graduated from Las Cruces High School and will be attending New Mexico State University.  He got an early start on his college education this summer thanks to a paid fellowship with KRWG.

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KRWG

How members of Gen-Z are approaching this historic moment of change

Gen-Z is entering adulthood as the U.S. grapples with systemic inequities in institutions from policing to education to health care. Student Reporting Labs, our journalism program for high school students, asked teenagers across the country how they’re approaching the moment, and Stephanie Sy talks to activists Thandiwe Abdullah, founder of Black Lives Matter LA Youth Vanguard, and Jalen Thompson.

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PBS NewsHour

Telemundo DC Features SRL School for Award

Last fall, students at SRL Lab Dominion High School in Sterling, Va. produced a piece on Latinx stereotypes for SRL’s first assignment: No Labels. Local Spanish-speaking station Telemundo Washington, D.C. covered the video’s producers after the piece was awarded with a Quill & Scroll Award.

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Telemundo

Amid canceled graduations, pubmedia provides alternatives for seniors lacking ceremonies

High schools across the country have canceled graduation ceremonies due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and some public media organizations are stepping up to address the loss of the rite of passage.

PBS Student Reporting Labs and WOUB in Athens, Ohio, have both created initiatives for high-school seniors. SRL partnered with the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, an educator support organization, to launch #SeniorPortrait, a campaign sharing seniors’ video diaries.

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