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Find current and past articles about our program, our people, student work, events, and milestones.

Join us for the How We Heal Film and Book Fest

Please plan to join us for the Healthy NewsWorks How We Heal Film and Book Fest on Wednesday, May 18. In keeping with our 2022 theme, â€œHow We Heal: Moving Ahead…

Meet the people featured in our 2022 book

Healthy NewsWorks student journalists interviewed more than a dozen health and community leaders for How We Heal: Leading Healthy Change In Our Communities 2022.  We thank them for their contributions to our…

HNW students mentioned in Senate testimony

Two Healthy NewsWorks student reporters recently were mentioned during congressional testimony, and are now part of the Congressional Record. Daniel, in fifth grade at East Norriton Middle School, and Katelynn,…

Help us spread the word about Healthy NewsWorks

Healthy NewsWorks empowers students to become researchers, writers, critical thinkers, and confident communicators who advance health understanding and literacy through their factual publications and digital media, and we would be…

Three new healthy newspapers launched

Congratulations to the students of Catholic Partnership Schools in Camden and Eleanor Emlen and Joseph W. Catharine in Philadelphia on the launch of their new healthy newspapers! The Catholic Partnership…

Thank you for a successful fund drive

A message from the executive director: A big THANK YOU to everyone who helped make our Fall 2021 fund drive a success! Not only did we meet our matching grant…

Enter the Healthy NewsWorks Writing Challenge

In a video invitation, Ginger Ragland, a Healthy NewsWorks staff teacher, shares details of the Healthy Writing Challenge. January 2022 … Healthy NewsWorks invites teachers to submit student reflections and…

Board welcomes attorney Chelsea Dellavella

Healthy NewsWorks is pleased to welcome attorney Chelsea Dellavella to its board as an observer for the next year. Chelsea recently accepted a new position as a conflicts attorney at…

Four seasons of Healthy NewsWorks

Healthy NewsWorks had an incredible 2021, and we couldn’t have done it without the support of many community members and organizations — and, of course, the talent and enthusiasm of…

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…