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

Highlights from the 2014-15 school year

June 2015…Healthy NewsWorks is deeply proud of the accomplishments of our student journalists during the 2014-15 school year (see highlights of the year in pictures). We wish them a fun,…
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Six reporters receive 2015 Distinguished Journalist Award

June 2015…Six eighth-grade Healthy NewsWorks reporters have received this year’s Distinguished Journalist Award for their outstanding work for their healthy newspapers. The winners are Cecily Ritchie of East Norriton Middle…
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Reflections from three 2015 book authors

June 2015…The student reporters who participate in the “Leading Healthy Change” book project are asked to write a reflection about their experience of interviewing a health leader for the book….
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Letters to leaders on display at book launch

June 2015…We reported back in December about a Healthy NewsWorks project, launched this past Fall, that encourages children to read about one of our “Leading Healthy Change” health leaders and…
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Third community edition newspaper now available

June 2015…Healthy NewsWorks student reporters have published a special community edition paper as part of the Think, Don’t Fight initiative. The newspaper includes stories written by reporters from a number of Healthy…
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Healthy NewsWorks inspires board chair to make health changes

June 2015…Amy Krulik, chair of the Healthy NewsWorks advisory board, loves watching Healthy NewsWorks reporters interview people because their questions often surprise her. One time, the students asked Olympic rower…
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Ovation for students at book event

[metaslider id=1029]Photos: Michelle Camperson May 2015…When Arthur C. Evans sat down for his interview with Healthy NewsWorks student journalists, he knew they had done their homework. “They gave me a…
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Healthy NewsWorks teacher wins Penn award

May 2015…Congratulations to Aviva Habib, a Healthy NewsWorks teacher, who  won a recent Alumni/Early Career Award of Merit from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education (Penn GSE). According…
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Director moderates panel on food insecurity

April 2015…Healthy NewsWorks Director Marian Uhlman moderated a panel discussion on food insecurity during a recent forum at St. James School in Philadelphia. Titled “Chat and Chew – Food Insecurity: An…
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Challenge: Take our healthy reporter quiz!

April 2015…Are you as smart as our Healthy NewsWorks reporters?  Take this quiz we developed to help them review topics they have learned this year. 1. Where should you go on…
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Acts of Kindness = Kindness for Khulani

Student reporters initiate fundraising effort to support a special-needs school in South Africa April 2015…Fourth-grade student reporters at Highland Park Elementary School recently interviewed psychologist and radio personality Dan Gottlieb for…
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‘Acts of Kindness’ posters go on display

[metaslider id=600] April 2015…Students at ten Healthy NewsWorks schools in Philadelphia, Norristown, and Upper Darby recently participated in an “Acts of Kindness” poster contest.  The students were encouraged to create a…
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