#UseTheNews

The #UseTheNews initiative gets to the bottom of young people’s news usage and literacy. In the Competence Center Young Audiences, new news formats are designed directly with the young audience and on the basis of in-house study results. In addition, educational offers, teaching materials, and training courses for teachers and journalists are being developed to strengthen media literacy in schools. #UseTheNews was initiated by the German Press Agency dpa and the Hamburg Authority for Culture and Media. The project is supported by a board of trustees made up of well-known personalities from the media and politics. In May 2022, the initiative was put on a legal footing and transferred to UseTheNews gGmbH. #UseTheNews has partners in Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, who are driving the initiative forward in their own countries.