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Power Reporting: Alerts for journalists: News

AJR wire services
Links to wire services, from American Journalism Review magazine.

Audio Video Current Awareness Services
Links to audio/video services for keeping up on the news, especially international events. By Gary Price.

CNN
E-mail alerts from CNN in Atlanta: breaking news, headline news, space news, computers, strange events, politics, sports, storms.

Editor & Publisher
Now more than job listings. Daily headlines on the Web, too.

European Journalism Centre
The European Journalism Centre is an independent, non-profit institute for further training, a forum for journalists, media executives and journalism educators. Sends daily updates by E-mail on media news from Europe.

Hints for the City Desk
A hard-copy newsletter of news tips. From Editors' Service, publisher of The Internet Newsroom. Now owned by Bergman Publications of Richmond, Va.

Israline
Find out how to subscribe to a daily summary of the Israeli press, from the Israeli Foreign Ministry. Also offers press statements, policy papers, speeches, op-eds.

MediaWeek
Daily headlines from MediaWeek, sister of AdWeek and BrandWeek.

MSNBC
MSNBC will flash an alert icon on your desktop when news breaks. Also sends alerts to your E-mail or pager: today's headlines and market news, NBC Nightly News headlines, and reminders of birthdays from LifeMinders.com.

News.com
CNET's News.com sends an E-mail every business day with headlines. Also offers Desk Top News, in case you want headlines on your desktop all the time, or headlines on your Palm Pilot.

NewsCenter
News sources, up to the minute. By Gary Price.

NewsLinx Headlines
Offers a daily compilation of headlines by E-mail, with links to articles, mostly on Internet culture and E-commerce. Also has alerts on Year 2000 and new software.

Online Journalism Review
From the USC Annennberg School.

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
RFE/RL Newsline is a daily report of developments in Eastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus and Central Asia. Based on news gathered by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

RocketNews
A search engine for current news headlines. Save your searches to be reissued. Search from today or go back one, two, even five days.

Slate International Papers
Slate's daily briefing on the international papers.

Slate Today's Papers
A daily briefing on the largest U.S. papers. Look for the posts entitled "Today's Papers."

Statistical Assessment Service
Journalists doing statistics? These folks are watching us. The Statistical Assessment Service (STATS) is a non-partisan, non-profit research organization in Washington, D.C. It receives more funding from conservative groups than liberal ones, but says it strives to hew to the accurate use of scientific and social research in public policy debate. "STATS serves as a resource for journalists by providing timely and well-researched analysis of current statistical and scientific disputes. Since STATS seeks to weed out bad data and research before it enters the media stream, we field queries from journalists on a regular basis."

The New York Times Direct
The New York Times will send a daily E-mail with headlines from the sections you prefer: page one, national, international, arts/living, business, opinion, sports, technology.

Yahoo News Alerts
A free way to stay up on news from AP, Reuters, etc. Especially helpful for news organizations without full-text clipping services, such as Nexis-Lexis or Dow Jones Interactive. Will send e-mail up to twice a day alerting you to news articles containing certain words or phrases. Set up as many alerts as you like. Free registration required.


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