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News Alerts - by EmailThese
free subscription e-mail lists come straight to your mailbox with the daily or
weekly information you need:
The
best : - Google
News Alerts are sent by email when news articles appear online that match
the topics you specify. Instead of
getting useless web pages you get only reliable news sources.
You can ask for as many as you want and you can request they get sent once a day
or as news happens.
World:
- Yahoo News
Alert Put in any word and Yahoo will tell you when AP or
Reuters has a story on it
- WorldPress.org
World Press is an automated headline service, updated every 15 minutes, drawn
from a sampling of newspapers and magazines worldwide. Its main adavnatge is that
the selection is more diverse than the usual fare you find on Google News or other
popular news sites. It also offers a free
email service to keep you up-to-date with the latest news from thousands of
newspapers from around the world, free of charge.
- Spy
On It This multi-task web site allows you to monitor web
sites for any changes (you can even tell it to check for a specific word); to
monitor top news sites (BBC, CNN, International Herald Tribune and Reuters) for
any story you select; and even check to see what search engines are saying about
you. You can have your spy results sent to your email, your pager or to
a web page
- Ananova
free email service You can choose categories and topics from this UK-based
news service
United
States: - NewYorkTimes
News Tracker The best newspaper on the web allows you to single
out specific words and tell the Times to email you any time the word or phrase
appears in a headline, an article or even a byline. You have to register first
at the member center, but it's
all free.
- Yahoo
News Alert Put in any word and Yahoo will tell you when
AP or Reuters has a story on it
- CNN
Headline Alerts The international news network offers free breaking news alerts
and headline news. But the best tool is a
personalized news alert that allows you to choose the keyword. It's free but
registration is required.
- OmniViewer
Extracts the relevant information from hundreds of sources and displays
that information in a variety of different format including
scrolling tickers,
newspaper viewers, voice announcements - Newstream
US news and experts from a wide varierty of sources, gathered and organized by
one of the leading online PR organizations
- Slate's
Today's papers The online magazine Slate sends out each morning
a critical precis of what's in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the L.A.
Times, USA Today and other leading papers. Fast, no cost and often a bit a humour.
- Backwire
A vast collection of free email news services you can subscribe to. The current
affairs offerings include the Washington Post, BBC and Reuters. Politics
includes Salon, Slate and the New York Times. Plus everything
from technology news and sports.
- NewsEmailer
saves you time by sending you free summaries of the latest news articles from
around the world. You can choose up to five newspapers from the United States,
Canada (English and French) and a handful of international papers. Or you can
choose your news by topics (everything from Business to War) and have up to ten
articles about each subject sent to you. Recently the site went down so the company
may be out of business
- Etracker
- Electric Library offers you a free email
notice of your selected topics
- MSN
Mobile Get your fast news and email sent to your cell phone
- Infobeat
Email delivery of newsletters in several areas: national news,
technology, business and finance, entertainment, lifestyles, shopping and travel,
and tips.
- Juvenile Crime
An alert list on juvenile justice issues, run by Earl Appleby of the Office of
Justice Programs, US Department of Justice for reporters covering youth crime
and violence. Send a subscribe notice to juvjust@aspensys.aspensys.com.
For info,contact Earl Appleby, EARL@ojp.usdoj.gov.
- U.S. General Accounting
Office Daybook subscription (usually twice daily) for details on US government
- U.S. Federal Aviation
Administration Press
releases sent via e-mail (several times a month)
- U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- Daily
Rocket Company Investment Monitor
Free software to stay on stop of your investments
United
Kingdom:
- BBC Desktop
Alerts The world's largest news gathering organization with one
of the best web news sites also allows you to get the news you want
from the Beeb, when you want it, on your desktop.
- BBC Daily Email One
of the few major media that allow you to request a specific keyword
for the stories you want, instead of getting all the headlines the company
chooses
- ITN Email Service
Choose your news, direct
to your desktop from Britain's ITN
- Ananova
A UK news site that provides good results from a wide range
of news sources to your news query. You can also use the advanced
news search to narrow down the time limit. And you can set up a
free email service for
your favourite news to be sent to you.
- Economist
Free email of their 2-page world summary
Other
countries:
Canada: Media
companies:
Science
news: - EurekAlert!
Offers 2 daily email notices
: embargoed news headlines and a daily news headlines listing. From American universities
and scientific organizations who pay users fees to EurekAlert!
- Science
Newswise
- Quadnet
Science news
- Sciwire: Digests press
releases, lots of medical stuff, mostly US
- E-Wire
Environment news to your desktop
- AlphaGalileo A
free email news service for the latest scientific news from Europe. You have to
register but at no cost. You get news releases, backgrounders, a search of archives
and also access to a database of experts.
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français:
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