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Email news services
These 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
- 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
- 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 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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