Catholic Partnership Schools Healthy Courier reporters took a creative approach last spring to showcase their research about the importance of school attendance: They wrote a song! After watching a music video about going to school, the sixth-grade reporters at...
Healthy NewsWorks staff members learn a lot about their new reporters each year during our “boot camp,” which consists of six lessons designed to immerse them in journalism. Program Manager Mia Blitstein describes below two reporters who have caught on quickly to some...
Aria Bucci, a fifth grader at East Norriton Middle School and former reporter for the Cole Manor Healthy Comet, is one of four students who helped create a new filmmaking series launched by Healthy NewsWorks. The four-part video project equips student journalists with...
Join us on Thursday, November 6, from 7 to 7:30 p.m. for Getting to Know Healthy NewsWorks. During this special event via Zoom, you’ll learn how Healthy NewsWorks helps kids develop media literacy skills and acquire health knowledge. Student reporters and a principal...
Healthy NewsWorks students will publish over 40 school newspapers this year. We are seeking volunteers with layout experience to help edit and design them. The newspapers are designed using Canva or Microsoft Publisher and are displayed as 8½-by-11-inch publications...
More elementary and middle schools than ever are participating in Healthy NewsWorks health journalism programming this year. In nearly two dozen schools in Philadelphia, Camden, Chester City, and Norristown, students will serve as reporters for each school’s...
