Student Reporting Labs Winter Academy Takes Los Angeles

As part of PBS SoCal’s efforts around PST ART: Art & Science Collide, PBS SoCal hosted 12 high school student fellows in January 2025 as part of PBS News Student Reporting Labs (SRL)’s Winter Academy. Watch their final news reports here.

Over the course of five days, students produced original video news reports and gained experience scripting, filming, and editing. Their reported stories focused on the region-wide arts initiative PST, and featured museums, artists and works at the intersection of art and science.

The fellows worked in teams to develop their reported stories and collaborated with local mentors from the California State University, Northridge Journalism Department’s Daily Sundial and Broadcast News programs and SRL staff through every stage of the production process.

Meet the 2025 Winter Academy Fellows and watch a behind-the-scenes of the Academy above.