Healthy NewsWorks is recruiting volunteers to help expand its work with elementary and middle school student journalists during the upcoming school year. The organization is seeking volunteer editors, page designers,…

The 2025–26 school year featured student articles, reflections, videos, and illustrations about Making Healthy Connections. The reporting theme that encouraged students to explore how connections shape people’s well-being.   Throughout the year, students researched and conducted interviews on empathy, social connections, and the ways art and…

Cole Manor reporters this year explored how reading can play an important role in young people’s emotional and social development. They interviewed Mrs. Karen Mitchell, “Reading builds connections and keeps you healthy,” at the Norristown Public Library who emphasized that reading helps…

Healthy NewsWorks is highlighting some of the books featured in student-written reviews throughout the school year. Together, these titles form a summer reading list filled with stories that inspire connection, kindness, curiosity, and…

A short video featuring Philadelphia Union soccer player Quinn Sullivan’s recent interview with fifth-grade reporters at Chester Charter Scholars Academy is now available, along with other articles, photos, and illustrations.  Quinn shared with them how he builds connections with teammates on and…

Two student-produced videos were shown to spur discussion during the Healthy Conversations event in April 2026. The videos grew out of student reporting related to the 2025–26 Healthy NewsWorks reporting…

“Being a reporter is really fun because I get to ask questions, get answers, and then put it in an article, and then it becomes really fun for me.”   That’s how one student reporter, Christian,…