The Van Nuys High School Digital Media program is a frequent collaborator with the journalism program. As a CTE course, students learn the fundamentals of filmmaking from ground up, all the way to managing a a weekly feature news show. Check out all the work from short films, to news features and special episodes on the Van Nuys High School YouTube channel.

Aidyn Kinchen, a senior, is a multifaceted member of The Mirror leadership team, the award-winning student newspaper and website at Van Nuys High School in Los Angeles. He is in his second year as an Online Editor-in-Chief, as well as a producer and cameraman for Real Humans, and tends to be a frequent competition writer. He has won five awards through journalism so far at the local, state and national levels and hopes to continue this forward momentum. Outside of journalism, he’s one of two student leaders in the Digital Media department, coming off a year of one of the best news shows the school has seen to date and awarded with the honor of third-best broadcast news in the state through the Southern California Journalism Education Association. With graduation brightly looming, he hopes to study film/television and broadcast journalism at any of the top film schools in the country. In his leisure time, he enjoys making custom beaded bracelets and listening to as many genres of music as there are stars in the sky.