Signature Series

2021-2022

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On Our Minds: Season 2

SRL is producing the second season of our podcast "On Our Minds" about teen mental health! For this special reporting project, SRL has two opportunities: 1. apply to be a student host and/or 2. pitch and produce an audio story.
Education’s Big Debates

SRL is producing a digital special premiering on NewsHour’s platforms and distributed through PBS Plus examining how today’s biggest civic debates are impacting education. For this advanced storytelling assignment, SRL needs your help to produce video news stories or explainers for our education special.
9/11 – 20 Years Later

Current high school students were born years after the September 11 attacks, but are surrounded by people with vivid memories of the events, either from the news or in-person on that day. How are students today learning about the attacks and the world events that resulted?
Back to School: Big Debates

The country is grappling with how to address present-day discrimination, racism and the legacy of slavery, as school boards, parents, and lawmakers argue about what students should be taught.
Pop Culture That Made Me Feel Seen

SRL wants you to share a time when you “felt seen” by something in pop culture or in the media (a movie, book, TV show, song, podcast, comic book, etc.)

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On Our Minds: Mental health podcast

Students learn how to make their own podcast episode, resulting in an audio story about a young person and their experience with mental health.
Justice For All

Students explore justice in their own community, and use solutions journalism to produce a story about how people are working to create “justice for all.”
Education During a Pandemic

Students explore ways the pandemic has changed education by producing a 2-5 minute news story with interviews, b-roll, and/or voiceover narration.
Our #Election2020

Student journalists will find out how young people feel about our democracy: its fairness, its faults, and how they’d like to see it operate if they were in charge.
Moving Forward – How are young people challenging racism?

Students capture teen voices on race and injustice in the U.S. and will film and interview students from their school and community to find out how young people are challenging racism and creating change.
Voices from Isolation

SRL reports on the effects of COVID-19 on their communities

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Voices from Isolation

SRL reports on the effects of COVID-19 on their communities
2020 IN FOCUS: Climate Change, Education, and Mental Health

SRL student reporters dive into three issues facing young people today
No Labels Attached

No Labels Attached: Breaking Down Misconceptions & Stereotypes explores how young people break down misconceptions and challenge stereotypes about who they are.

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STEM & Health

Youth journalists in STEM Student Reporting Labs explore how citizen scientists are advancing knowledge while Health SRLs investigate where students turn in a mental health crisis and show how peer to peer counseling programs build healthier school communities.
Art in Real Life

How are Americans experiencing art across the country? Find out in SRL’s latest series, Art in Real Life #artIRL.
Opportunity in America

For our series, "Opportunity in America," teen journalists produced stories that explore dreams, expectations and the barriers teenagers must overcome to achieve their goals.
Turning Out: The Youth Vote

Teen reporters from the PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs across the country captured how teens feel about voting and the upcoming midterm elections.

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Health Innovators

Youth journalists investigate how health care innovators across the country are shaping our future and redefining what it means to be “healthy.”
Engineering Our World

Youth journalists explore how engineering is reshaping our lives.
Power in Numbers

Youth social movements across America
Misinformation Overload

Teens reveal impact and perceptions of misinformation
Making It Work

Today’s Youth, Tomorrow’s Jobs

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Road to Graduation

Challenges facing high school students
SRL On Ferguson

Teens reflect on Ferguson unrest
Athletes as Role Models

Student journalists react to domestic abuse scandals in NFL
The New Safe

How the concept of school safety has changed since Newtown