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News service
Email news services
These free subscription e-mail lists come straight to your mailbox
with the daily or weekly information you need:
The best :
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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:
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Yahoo News Alert Put in any word and Yahoo will tell you when
AP or Reuters has a story on it
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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
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Ananova free email service You can choose categories and topics
from this UK-based news service
United States:
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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.
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Yahoo News Alert Put in any word and Yahoo will tell you when
AP or Reuters has a story on it
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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
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Newstream US news and experts from a wide varierty of
sources, gathered and organized by one of the leading online PR
organizations
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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.
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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.
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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
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Etracker
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Electric Library offers you a free email notice of your selected
topics
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MSN Mobile Get your fast news and email sent to your cell
phone
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Infobeat Email delivery of newsletters in several areas:
national news, technology, business and finance, entertainment,
lifestyles, shopping and travel, and tips.
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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.
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U.S. General Accounting Office Daybook subscription (usually
twice daily) for details on US government
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U.S. Federal Aviation Administration Press releases
sent via e-mail (several times a month)
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U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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Daily Rocket Company Investment Monitor Free software to
stay on stop of your investments
United Kingdom:
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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
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ITN Email Service Choose your news, direct to your
desktop from Britain's ITN
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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.
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Economist Free email of their 2-page world summary
Other countries:
Canada:
Media companies:
Science news:
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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!
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Science Newswise
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Quadnet Science news
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Sciwire: Digests press releases, lots of medical stuff, mostly
US
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E-Wire Environment news to your desktop
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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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