Karen Ramos, a senior at Sterling’s Dominion High School, is one of four U.S. student journalists named Student Journalists of the Year by PBS NewsHour’s Student Reporting Labs. Read more here.
University of Cincinnati sophomore Mary Williams keeps her PBS Student Journalist of the Year award stashed in its original box in her dorm room. She takes it out for special occasions.
PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs has been exploring how stereotypes are impacting young people as part of their “No Labels Attached” series. Our latest installment looks at what youth are saying about race, culture and the misconceptions they are facing.
Her mentors call her passionate. She calls herself eager to learn. We call her a Bearcat.
And on Jan. 28, University of Cincinnati sophomore Mary Williams’ name will be called as “Student Journalist of the Year,” at a National Educational Telecommunications Association ceremony in Washington, D.C.
As local Democrats and Republicans met at Centerville High School to select their supported Presidential candidates, students lurked with cameras and questions.
The effort is part of another project with the Student Reporting Labs program through the national PBS organization.