Jesse, Jesse, Jaden and Sawyer of Fort Mill High School pose with their Best of SRL 2013 trophy.
These promising journalists took home top prize in the Constitution category for their story about what effects new gun regulations may have on Second Amendment rights.
Nice work, gentleman!
Watch out for that axe! Students from Richwood High School in West Virginia rock their new Reporting Labs t-shirts.
If you haven’t check out their first news story, then check it out this link: http://bit.ly/UrCcVw
Students at Richwood High School in West Virginia produced a video about how economic issues and the coal industry affected this year’s presidential election. In recent months, there have been job cutbacks at several coal-mining companies and many of the residents are angry with the EPA and President Obama’s alternative energy policies. The students explored unique angles of the story, including how policies affect families and expectations about the future of energy production in the Appalachian region.
(Source: studentreportinglabs.com)
Students at Daniel Pearl Magnet High School, a Reporting Labs site in Los Angeles, California, interview their peers for a PBS NewsHour project called “Listen to Me.”
Listen to Me is made up of short videos from around the country in which citizen reporters ask people in their community questions about their attitudes going into the 2012 Election. The goal of these videos is to give a wide range of Americans an opportunity to voice their concerns and create a culturally and geographically diverse tapestry of responses.diverse tapestry of responses.
- Photos by Hassan Muhammad
(Source: studentreportinglabs.com)
As part of the Coping with Climate Change series, the PBS NewsHour looks at how cities like Chicago are dealing with rising temperatures: http://bit.ly/QQUaxh
The NewsHour team (Hari Sreenivasan and Saskia de Melker) were very excited about including Free Spirit Media, a Reporting Labs site in Chicago, in the reporting process.
FSM’s very own Janell Coleman is not only featured at the top of the piece, but she coordinated and assisted with her grandmother’s interview as well. (She is listed as a production assistant on the broadcast piece!)
Watch the full video on tonight’s broadcast.
(Source: studentreportinglabs.com)
In a project called “Listen to Me” the PBS NewsHour is collecting short videos from around the country in which citizen reporters ask people in their community questions about their attitudes going into the 2012 Election. The goal of these videos is to give a wide range of Americans an opportunity to voice their concerns and create a culturally and geographically diverse tapestry of responses.
Students at Richwood High School in West Virginia, a PBS Student Reporting Labs site, put together their own Listen to Me video, where they asked classmates to speak about what issues were most important to them in 2012 and their hopes for the future.
“Help us bring more student journalism to @SXSWedu by voting for our proposed panel! http://bit.ly/WdRaMn
More than half of the high schools in America have a school newspaper or a video production course — but how can these programs encourage citizenship and improve the media landscape of the future?
Our panel will hare how video journalism can help young people gain confidence in themselves as capable, socially responsible citizens by discovering the power of storytelling.
Hanging out with the Media Enterprise Alliance crew in Oakland, California. MEA provides high school students the opportunity to learn media arts while earning college credit. We’re proud to have this amazing organization on board as a Reporting Labs site.
Dr. Imani Cheers snapped these candid shots during her recent visit to Sentinel High School, a Reporting Labs site in Missoula, Montana.
(Source: studentreportinglabs.com)
