Use The News is a new service providing teaching materials to educators and NIE resources to newspapers. Use The News instructional resources bring the excitement of the "real world" to the classroom.

A primary source of the 'news' content included in Use The News materials is the newspaper. Use of news and information from other media -- online, books, magazines, television, cable TV, documentary videos and other media -- is encouraged.

In addition, Use The News Foundation will provide technical assistance on strategies for grant proposal development, identification of partners and project verification and evaluation. The Foundation will also develop educational materials that use the media in teaching and learning activities, focusing on human rights issues, multicultural education and diversity.

The Foundation’s services are available nationally to the more than 700 newspapers sponsoring NIE programs, including dailies, nondaily and community newspapers. Further, the Foundation will provide consultation and referral services to educators at all levels and to college and university students conducting research on the use of media in education.

Use The News Foundation has been developed by Use The News, a company founded by Dr. Betty L. Sullivan and Dr. Sherrye Dee Garrett. Clients of Use The News are newspapers and newspaper-related organizations throughout the United States and Canada, such as The New York Times, San Francisco Newspaper Agency, USA Weekend, Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service, Newspaper Association of America Foundation, Pennsylvania Newspaper Association Foundation, Michigan Press Association and NIE Information Service.

Non-newspaper clients of Use The News include the United States Olympic Committee, American Bar Association Division for Public Education, Harvard University Institute on Media Education, Teachers College of Columbia University, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, Walt Disney’s World on Ice, Wizard of Oz on Ice and Burson Marsteller.

International clients include the Japanese Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association (Tokyo), Media in Education Foundation of South Africa (Durban), The JoongAng Ilbo (Seoul) and The Star (Petaling Jaya, Malaysia).

Dr. Betty L. Sullivan is an internationally known media and education consultant who began in NIE by using the newspaper with her students in the public schools of the Mississippi Delta. Having held various educational services positions with USA TODAY, New York Newsday and The Commercial Appeal of Memphis, TN, she has also served as the national director of education programs for the Newspaper Association of America Foundation. She is a founding member of the Newspaper in Education Committee of the World Newspaper Association and has advised organizations such as the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Children’s Television Network, PBS, National Coalition for Literacy, International Reading Association, Literacy Volunteers of America, National Council for the Social Studies and National Association of Partners in Education.