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CANYON HIGH SCHOOL, CANYON COUNTRY, CA

"Information is crucial to creating a good life, understanding the world around you, and journalism is what gets that information to the public."

Produced by Francisco Simplicio, Trinity Aberin and Arianna Bogue Aleman at Canyon High School in Canyon Country, California. Instruction provided by Ryanne Meschkat. Station support provided by PBS NewsHour.

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Teens Break Through The Noise

PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs turned to its network of teen reporters in urban and rural communities around the country to find out what young people really think about “fake news,” how it has affected their lives and the role that journalism plays in their communities.

The young voices highlighted in nearly 200 interviews from teens in 69 schools shed light on how students are dealing living in a world where their attention is competing with a variety of sources and the hazard of misinformation overload remains constant.

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WAUWATOSA WEST HIGH SCHOOL, WAUWATOSA, WI

"When lies are told, we become more ignorant. So fake news is actively making society more ignorant."

Produced by students at Wauwatosa West High School in Wauwatosa West, Wisconsin. Instruction provided by SRL Connected Educator Christopher Lazarski. Station support provided by Milwaukee Public Television.

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LANIER HIGH SCHOOL, AUSTIN, TX

"Fake news is making people more gullible to things they hear online."

Produced by Diana Feliciano, Sebastian Reyes, and Eric Tejeda at Lanier High School in Austin, Texas. Instruction provided by SRL Connected Educator Tara Bordeaux. Station support provided by KLRU.

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HUGHES STEM HIGH SCHOOL, CINCINNATI, OH

"I do think fake news is a problem. I believe that it's the new epidemic because people don't understand how fast fake news spreads."

Produced by students at Hughes STEM High School in Cincinnati, Ohio. Instruction provided by SRL Connected Educator Melissa Sherman. Station support provided by CET.

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BURLINGAME HIGH SCHOOL, BURLINGAME, CA

"Without journalism, the government and other elected officials would be able to act in a way in which they were not held accountable and they could do whatever they want and that would truly destroy what America means for so many people in this country."

Produced by students at Burlingame High School in Burlingame, California. Instruction provided by SRL Connected Educator Stephen Erle. Station support provided by KQED.

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MESQUITE TECHNOLOGY EXCELLENCE CENTER, MESQUITE, TX

"People tend to not go the further mile to get knowledge, they just tend to believe whatever's told in one ear and it goes out the other."

Produced by students at Mesquite ISD Technology Excellence Center in Dallas, Texas. Instruction provided by SRL Connected Educator Shonda Tindall. Station support provided by KERA.

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ROYAL OAK HIGH SCHOOL, ROYAL OAK, MI

"If there is bad information going around, how can we make rational, informed decisions about what is true and what is not?"

Produced by students at Royal Oak High School in Royal Oak, Michigan. Instruction provided by SRL Connected Educator Mike Conrad. Station support provided by Detroit Public Television.

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DALTON MIDDLE SCHOOL, DALTON, GA

"It's a really dangerous thing to be willfully ignorant."

Produced by students at Dalton Middle School in Dalton, Georgia. Instruction provided by SRL Connected Educator Gina Gray. Station support provided by WTCI.

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WEST RANCH HIGH SCHOOL, SANTA CLARITA, CA

"We spend more time in the media than any other generation ever has and with all of this information being circulated, we need to make sure that the information that is getting to the audience is factual and is correct."

Produced by Josh Orris, Christian Jackson, Alexis Francel, Riley Flynn, and Spencer Rodrigues at West Ranch High School in Santa Clarita, California. Instruction provided by SRL Connected Educator Jennifer Overdevest. Station support provided by PBS NewsHour.

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G. HOLMES BRADDOCK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, MIAMI, FL

"[Fake news] is giving people false hope or just causing a scare to a lot of people for no necessary reason."

Produced by students at G. Holmes Braddock Senior High School in Miami, Florida. Instruction provided by SRL Connected Educator Daniel Brotons. Station support provided by WPBT2 South Florida PBS.

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XAVIER COLLEGE PREPARATORY, PHOENIX, AZ

"Without journalism we would have no idea what's happening outside of our small communities."

Produced by students at Xavier College Preparatory in Phoenix, Arizona. Instruction provided by SRL Connected Educators Frances MacMahon Ward and Cory Cosic. Station support provided by Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.

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PARADYM ACADEMY, GREAT BRITAIN, CT

"Journalism does matter in its truest form because it's a great way to get information out to the public that they wouldn't normally know."

Produced by Grace DiCiccio and Daniel Padilla at ParaDYM Academy in New Britain, Connecticut. Instruction provided by SRL Connected Educator Duane Pierre. Station support provided by Connecticut Public Television.

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GRANBY HIGH SCHOOL, NORFOLK, VA

"I think fake news is a problem because media outlets tend to promote bias and a lot of individuals cannot distinguish because biased information and unbiased information."

Produced by students at Granby High school in Norfolk, Virginia. Instruction provided by SRL Connected Educator Will Huberdeau. Station support provided by WHRO and PBS NewsHour.

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WINDSOR HIGH SCHOOL, WINDSOR, CA

"The job of a journalist is to make sure that what they're broadcasting is honest and true and as least biased as possible."

Produced by students at Windsor High School in Windsor, California. Instruction provided by SRL Connected Educators Paul Kinunen and Jim Evans. Station support provided by KQED.

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PFLUGERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL, PFLUGERVILLE, TX

"Even though sometimes journalists get a bad rap of being fake news or being dishonest, for the most part journalism is the only reason we do know the truth."

Produced by An Nguyen, Ceasar Rodriguez, David Hudson, Josh Mosely, Samajae Bonds, Tristan Eddings, Jada Gillespie, Josh Rydolph, and Roderick Taylor at Pflugerville High School in Plugerville, Texas. Instruction provided by SRL Connected Educators David Robb and Tamika Fagan. Station support provided by KLRU.

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FORT MILL HIGH SCHOOL, FORT MILL, SC

"The solution to the spread of misinformation is to really check your sources and know that what you're reading is true before spreading it somewhere else."

Produced by students at Fort Mill High School in Fort Mill, South Carolina. Instruction provided by SRL Connected Educator Karin McKemey. Station support provided by PBS NewsHour.