Deadline: 2-Dec-22
How is school preparing you for your future? What’s working? What could be done differently? How is education adapting to their changing world? What do you want from your education that doesn’t currently exist? This is your chance to get published and win prizes!
The Student Journalism Challenge is for students ages 13-18 to use your curiosity and critical thinking to reflect on the education you’ve had and the opportunities you want for future generations. Individuals or teams can submit ORIGINAL text, audio, or video pieces that respond to the theme of “My education, my future.
Award Information
- The Winning entries will be published and promoted on PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs platform and channels, participating local PBS stations and XQ. The Winners in the Print category will also be published on Forbes.com’s Well Beings blog. Winners will also receive a Two Hundred and Fifty ($250) dollar Tango gift card plus mentoring opportunities. The approximate retail value of the prize represents NHP’s good faith determination. That determination is final and binding and cannot be appealed. If the actual value of the prize turns out to be less than the stated approximate retail value, the difference will not be awarded in cash. NHP reserves the right to substitute any prize for a prize of equal or greater value, at the sole discretion of NHP. Prize recipients must allow a minimum of 4 to 6 weeks from notification to delivery. Prizes are not redeemable for cash, non-transferable, and non-substitutable, except at NHP’s sole discretion.
Eligibility Criteria
- Children of employees of WETA, NewsHour Productions LLC, CPB, PBS, XQ Institute, and any subsidiaries or parent companies, are not eligible. To be eligible, an entrant must be a student between thirteen (13) and eighteen (18) years of age at the time of entry, a legal resident of the fifty (50) United States and the District of Columbia. If under the age of 18, an adult (i.e. teacher, after-school program, club advisor or parent) must submit for the student (the “Submittor”).
- All entrants must be in grades 8 – 12 and affiliated with a school, homeschool or involved with a club, after school or extracurricular organization.
- All entrants must be enrolled full-time as students during the entry period.
- All entries must be submitted using the method.
- All entires must either be in text, for the print category (500 words or less), Four (4) minute or less video (YouTube or Vimeo link) or Four (4) minute or less audio (i.e. .AIFF or .WAV file) form.
- Only one entry in one category per person/team will be accepted in this Challenge; all subsequent entries will be disqualified.
- Entry piece must be newly produced and created between August 1 – December 2, 2022.
- Entry must have English language content; Non-English language text must be translated.
- Entry must respond to the theme of “My education, My future.”
- Entry content must be original to the entrant and/or royalty-free music and images.
- Entries cannot contain any copyrighted material.
- All video entries must be accompanied by signed releases of all individuals who appear on screen.
- Any failure to adhere to these Challenge Rules may result in disqualification from the Challenge.
For more information, visit Student Reporting Labs.
For more information, visit https://studentjournalismchallenge.org/