Healthy NewsWorks is featured in The Philadelphia Inquirer

Healthy NewsWorks is featured in The Philadelphia Inquirer

December 2021 … At Healthy NewsWorks, we’re used to our student journalists reporting the news, but this week we find ourselves in the news! The Philadelphia Inquirer has published a lengthy feature…

Reaching even more students with special lessons

December 2021 … To engage more children in Healthy NewsWorks, our faculty teams up with teachers whose students are not currently enrolled in either our Core Reporting or Cub Programs….

Inquiry Charter launches health newspaper

December 2021 … Congratulations to the students of Inquiry Charter School, who have published the first edition of their new health newspaper! Inquiry is part of the Belmont Charter Network…

Healthy NewsWorks honored with GSK Impact Award for a second time

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] December 2021…Healthy NewsWorks has been recognized with a GSK Impact Award, its second time receiving the prestigious honor from GlaxoSmithKline.  Healthy NewsWorks and…

Healthy NewsWorks expands into New Jersey

November 2021 … This fall, 15 Healthy NewsWorks classrooms are hard at work on the first issues of their healthy school newspapers—including our first programs in Camden, N.J. The Catholic…

Meet the staff behind Healthy NewsWorks

October 2021 … This fall, hundreds of students in the Philadelphia region will learn to distinguish fact from fiction and how to source reliable information. Before long, they will produce…

Healthy NewsWorks has distributed hundreds of copies of its 2021 book

October 2021 … Students, teachers, and schools have received nearly 500 copies of Leading Healthy Change In Our Communities 2021: Doing the Undoable in a Pandemic.  Copies were mailed and delivered with the start of fall classes….

Healthy NewsWorks awarded Quest for Health Equity grant

September 2021…Healthy NewsWorks has been awarded a three-year grant by Quest for Health Equity (Q4HE), a Quest Diagnostics initiative that seeks to close gaps in healthcare in underserved communities. The…

Our 2021-22 curriculum is focused on healing

August 2021 … Because of everything our young reporters and their communities have experienced these past 18 months, from the pandemic to social unrest, we have chosen How We Heal: Moving…

Kids’ worlds expand with video interview opportunities

August 2021 … Healthy NewsWorks adapted quickly when schools shut down in March 2020, pivoting to helping our students journalists conduct their interviews via video. It helped that we had…