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Calling all volunteer editors!
Healthy NewsWorks is seeking volunteers with professional editing experience to help our growing program. A background in print or broadcast journalism is a plus! Volunteer editors engage in varied editing…
Whether you’re spending summer’s long hot days soaking up the sun at the beach, relaxing in a hammock in the shade, or basking in the sweet AC indoors, there’s never…
A recent article on media literacy featuring Healthy NewsWorks Program Manager Mia Blitstein has been reprinted in Spanish by Impacto Latin Newspaper. The July 19 article appears on Impacto’s website. …
MaST Healthy Panther Post reporters created a comic strip focused on an empathetic duck. Logan Healthy Eagle students organized a school poetry contest after interviewing a former Philadelphia poet laureate….
To everyone who contributed to our Building a Healthy Future Campaign during its first year, THANK YOU! We are humbled and deeply gratified by your enthusiasm for and confidence in…
Healthy NewsWorks highlighted in Penn alumni magazine
The Penn GSE Magazine recently featured Healthy NewsWorks Program Manager Mia Blitstein and spotlighted Healthy NewsWorks as part of the national movement to increase media literacy in schools. Mia earned…
Student reporters, their families, and community volunteers gathered June 2 for a festive afternoon of fun, music, and healthy activities at the inaugural Healthy NewsWorks Spring Block Party. The event,…
Healthy NewsWorks was honored to screen its award-winning film “How We Heal” as part of a community workshop about children’s social, emotional, and developmental health needs sponsored by Children First. …
WATCH: An animated version of an original student comic
Eighth-grade artist Liliana Diaz’s original comic, “A Sticky Situation,” first ran in the Catholic Partnership Schools Healthy Courier earlier this year. You also may have spotted it in the Spring…
The Spring 2024 edition of our By Kids, For Kids magazine is now available online! This issue focuses on Caring for Our Community and Ourselves, which Healthy NewsWorks student reporters…
Over the past two decades, Healthy NewsWorks reporters have had enviable opportunities to interview thought leaders and household names to unearth important lessons in healthful living. In looking back at…
Companies and organizations wishing to sponsor our upcoming Block Party and our Fall 2024 By Kids, For Kids magazine have until May 24 to let us know. The Healthy NewsWorks…
