Student News Live concludes 24 hours of Election Day Coverage

We are delighted that we have successfully concluded 24 hours of live Election Day coverage across America and around the world.

We want to thank every student, faculty and staff member who contributed to our coverage. We want to also thank every school, college, and university that participated. There was some very interesting content over the 24 hours, and we recognize the hard work required in putting it all together!

We feel that effort was worth it. Collectively, we created a nationwide student journalism broadcast that offered the audience something new: the perspective of the younger genration of Americans. Topics and issues of interest to this generation were probably only covered by Student News Live, and not heard elsewhere. It’s important that we shared those voices and reported from the communities that don’t get a platform or opportunity to communicate on other forms of media.

We also sent four student journalists to the White House on Election Day, where they reported live for us and interacted with professional journalists at the White House. Again and again, our students were welcomed and encouraged by the professionals working there, who thought that Student News Live was an excellent idea!

We would like to thank our partners for this inaugural Student News Live event:

Backbone Broadcast
Broadcast Education Association
The Chartered Institute of Journalists
College Radio Foundation
Intercollegiate Broadcasting System
National Association of Hispanic Journalists
Press Pass NYC
Society of Professional Journalists
The Association of LTBQ+ Journalists
Youth Journalism Coalition

We thank our following partners:

iHeartRadio
PBS News Student Reporting Labs
West Virginia Public Broadcasting

And the kind support of:

NBCU Academy

Thanks again, and we look forward to our next event in 2025!