Our 600 higher-education, foundation and nonprofit members tell us they use AScribe for 10 reasons:

1.  It extends their reach. AScribe gets your news releases directly into newsroom systems and news retrieval archives. Through an alliance with The Associated Press, we provide our members with direct access to newsroom systems of major metro dailies and broadcast media. Through alliances with LexisNexis, DowJones-Reuters' Factiva, Dialog and others, we get your news into the global electronic databases used by reporters and editors.

2.  It's fast. Very fast. When you send your news release on the AScribe wire, it reaches hundreds of newsrooms, news-retrieval databases, Web sites and portals within a few minutes of the time you send it. Your news gets processed and displayed by newsroom publishing systems earlier in the news cycle.

3.  It's affordable. AScribe's prices for nonprofit organizations range from $50 to $85 per release -- about one-tenth the cost of national distribution over either of the two corporate PR wires. Many AScribe members use the wire to distribute all their news for a whole year for less than the cost of a single national release on the corporate wires.

4.  It's remarkably easy. Using the newswire is as simple as sending us an e-mail. There's no special formatting. We do all the work necessary to put your news release into newsroom systems, research databases and other digital channels.

5.  It's efficient. AScribe saves them staff time. Using a wire means you spend less time at the fax machine or doing paperwork. You gain more time to write and pitch your stories.

6.  It cuts through media clutter. Newsrooms are flooded with unwanted faxes and e-mails. Because AScribe transmits on the same AP network that journalists trust and use daily, we keep your news from being lost on the newsroom floor or filtered out of e-mail.

7.  It helps bypass media gate keepers and reach the public directly. AScribe gets your news to Web sites and portals that publish news releases as content. Your news release flows onto web sites and into news databases read by people interested in the topic of the release.

8.  It gives a valuable tool to reach Internet users. In addition to getting your news to newspapers and broadcasters, the AScribe wire makes your releases available to hundreds of Web sites that are impossible to reach any other way.

9. It puts their news in good company. More than 600 organizations use AScribe. They include colleges, universities, graduate schools, national and regional nonprofit organizations, foundations, associations, NGOs, unions, think tanks, research centers and advocacy groups focused on public policy, political and public-interest issues.

10. AScribe is trusted by the media. We send serious news from serious organizations. Journalists recognize and trust that. Media organizations everywhere rely on AScribe for news on every topic. The quality of the news on the wire every day ensures that journalists covering public-interest issues pay attention to the news our members issue on the AScribe Newswire.