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Student Reporting Labs

PBS News Student Reporting Labs is a hands-on student journalism training program from PBS News that connects young people to real-world experiences and educators to resources and community.

PBS SoCal supports youth journalists and media makers across Southern California by offering classroom workshops, giving studio tours, and creating opportunities to learn with PBS SoCal staff and other journalism professionals.

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Samuel Torres talks about his concerns regarding climate change. | Still from "Youth Concerns During Election Year: Climate"
In order to understand youth concerns this election year, SRL participants asked other students what issues they care about.
Ontario male cheerleader | PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs
To help understand the impact of stereotypes, SRL participants asked fellow students in what ways they have been stereotyped.
Diana Rincon at the Dec. 19, 2019 Democratic presidential debate. | Still from "SRL students go behind the scenes of the NewsHour POLITICO Dem debate"
PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs students got the chance to attend a Democratic Debate at Loyola Marymount University. They shared their thoughts on participating with PBS SoCal.
Francisco Antonio Moreno Jr. and Evan Espinoza-Conde at the Dec. 19, 2019 Democratic presidential debate. | PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs
PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs students got the chance to attend a Democratic debate at Loyola Marymount University. They shared their thoughts on participating with PBS SoCal.
SRL students interview Democratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez at the Dec. 19, 2019 democratic debate at Loyola Marymount University. | PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs
What's it like to be behind the scenes of a presidential debate? Young SRL journalists find out.
Etiwanda High School students shoot on location at Channel Islands National Park in 2017. | PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs
Schools must apply to become a Student Reporting Lab — via an application available on the SRL website.
Students from Etiwanda High School shoot and edit on the road for a story about first-time voters on Election Day in 2018. | PBS SoCal
Student Reporting Labs train the next generation of journalists to share important community stories with the world.
Amy Woods producing Livestream of the student panel at the Democratic Debate Watch Party. Her Northview High School students filmed the Livestream. | PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs
Amy Woods, a teacher at Northview High School in Covina, CA, embodies public media's mission as she guides her students on how to tell stories about minority communities.
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