NewsHour Extra's Mission
Using the standards and resources of PBS's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, NewsHour Extra provides students and teachers with quality educational resources based on current issues and events.

Students will find features that make connections between the news and the world around them. They can also speak out on important issues and share their experiences with other young journalists.

Teachers and educators will find cross-discipline resources that make teaching current events easy and effective. NewsHour Extra is produced by the education department of MacNeil-Lehrer Productions.

Extra offers two modules that automatically publish Extra content to local station sites.

Please contact us when you start using the module and if you have any suggestions or need help using the modules.

Saskia de Melker
Reporter Producer - Local/National
sdemelker [ @ ] newshour.org
703.998.2169

EXTRA Headlines RSS module
The EXTRA RSS module is updated twice and week and includes the headlines and text of three EXTRA stories. It is generated by this feed:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/NewshourExtraHeadlines

Instructions
To publish this version of the EXTRA module on your site, place the code from the box below in the desired location on your HTML page.

EXTRA Headlines RSS module without description
The EXTRA RSS module is updated twice a week and includes the headlines of three EXTRA stories.

Instructions
To publish this version of the EXTRA module on your site, place the code from the box below in the desired location on your HTML page.

Copy This Code
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rss/rssmodule_extra_headline.php"></script>

EXTRA Student Reporting Labs

Student Reporting Labs is an experiment that connects high school students to local PBS stations and news professionals in their community. The young people who created these videos are learning how to report, synthesize information and investigate important topics: journalism as a form of learning and teaching.

Watch some of the student videos here. If you would like to join this pilot project, contact us. Support for Student Reporting Labs comes from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Watch station mentors in Austin, Texas explain the project: