News Alerts - by Email

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
  • 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

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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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How to find Email news

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