November 2012…Thanks to a grant from The American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation,  Healthy NewsWorks student journalists will be reporting about what prescription drugs are and how to use them safely….

November 2012…After a two-year hiatus, the Healthy Reporter will be published again at Whitehall Elementary School in the Norristown Area School District. Whitehall librarian Janet Martin is the paper’s new…

November 2012…Healthy NewsWorks has welcomed a new partnership this fall with KIPP Philadelphia Charter School.  KIPP, or the Knowledge is Power Program, currently serves nearly 32,000 students nationwide. Interest in…

October 2012…Donna Freeman, editor of the Marshall Street Healthy Bulletin and fourth grade teacher, asked her students to write an Ode to either the paper or to fruit.  The Ode is part…

October 2012…Healthy NewsWorks is thrilled to announce that we are now working with WHYY-FM on a variety of projects to further enable our student journalists to promote health within their…

October 2012…The Hancock Healthy Times staff is reporting on healthy snacks and beverages. For background, they counted by the teaspoon the amount of sugar in several highly sweetened drinks. Hancock…

September 2012… Healthy NewsWorks is embarking on its 10th school year this fall.  We’ve come a long way since our first years at Hillcrest Elementary School in Upper Darby where…

September 2012… Teachers and student reporters in participating Healthy NewsWorks schools can now access a section of the Healthy NewsWorks website to obtain resource information to help make their healthy…

September 2012… Four fourth grade journalists from Gotwals Elementary School, along with their teacher Katie Sortino, toured the new 146-bed, $350 million Einstein Medical Center Montgomery (EMCM) hospital in East…