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 A newshound's guide to newsy periodicals available through the Internet.
Updated Oct. 15th, 1994. Copyright 1994 John M. Higgins
([e-mail]) All rights reserved. Additional copyright
information at bottom.

IMPORTANT NEWS! The Net-Letter guide is changing listservers. I've been
handling it manually so far. Wouldn't you say that 800 subscribers is a
bit much to handle manually? It's not clear whether or not I can simply
transport my subscriber list to Netcom, so you may receive a notice
asking you to resubscribe. Hopefully, I can get it going in a week or so.

  +Additions (usually stuff that's been around a while, but only recently
discovered because I'm an idiot): +ATP Tour Weekly; +Arab Press Research;
+Nano-Connect!; +The New South Polar Times; +One Small Step For A Space
Activist

    -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-THE BEST NET-LETTERS-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
      Late Show News (TV); Fitz's ShopTalk (TV); Edupage (Infotech)
         This Just In (Weird News); Computer Underground Digest
AIDS Daily Summary; RFE/RL Daily Report (E. Europe); Patent News Service
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  My favorite things on the Internet are informative, high-quality
newsletters. The quality of info contributed to what Mitch Kapor describes
as the Net's "gift economy" is amazing. Good NEWSY letters get lost in the
flood of zines and very technical pubs.

  So this list focuses on news-oriented net-letters with fairly broad
appeal. The list is tremendously biased toward e-mail delivery and ONLY
includes free newsletters. Very technical and fanzine pubs are not
included because they are well covered by other guides. New pubs generally
added only after demonstrating a regular publishing schedule.

  GIMME FEEDBACK!! Send me your favorite net-letters, particularly if
you're the editor. Include any subscription and archive information.

----------------------------------Media----------------------------------

  FITZ'S SHOPTALK: Daily dispatches on the TV business, both networks and
local stations by media headhunter Don FitzPatrick. Primarily summaries
of wire-service and major newspapers, but also includes some full-text
reprints. Fairly short.
       To: [e-mail]
       Subject: Ignored
       Body: SUBSCRIBE YOUR@ADDRESS

  LATE SHOW NEWS: A guy in Chicago who obviously stays up way too late
puts out a weekly newsletter on the late-night talk show wars. It's biased
toward Letterman but contains surprisingly good industry dirt on Leno,
Conan, etc. (even for those of us writing about television for a living).
Short.
E-MAIL - To: [e-mail]
  Subject: Ignored
  Body: Subscribe Late-Show-News
USENET - alt.fan.letterman and rec.arts.tv
FTP - ftp.mcs.net:/mcsnet.users/barnhart/letterman
WWW - http://www.cen.uiuc.edu/jl8287/late.news.html

  BONG: The official newsletter of the Burned-Out Newspapercreatures
Guild which appears to consist of a single witty and bitterly cynical
Dayton Daily News reporter. Sample commentary on journalism: "So
how come Nicole Simpson's dog and the renter of her ex-husband O.J.
Simpson's guest house were both named Cato?" Short.
E-MAIL: To: [e-mail]
  Subject: Ignored
  Body: Subscribe BONG-L

  CABLE REGULATION DIGEST: Weekly summary of news on cable regulation
published by Multichannel News. Moderate length.
E-MAIL - Distributed to the TELECOMREG mailing list.
  To: [e-mail]
  Subject: None
  Body: Subscribe TELECOMREG YOUR NAME
FTP - ftp.vortex.com:pub/tv-film-video/cable-reg
GOPHER - gopher.vortex.com

  CYBER-SLEAZE: Overhyped and a bit tedious, Cyber-Sleaze is composed of
low-grade gossip and put out by former MTV VJ Adam Curry. Short,
thankfully.
E-MAIL - To: [e-mail]
  Subject: Ignored
  Body: Subscribe Cyber-Sleaze Your Name

---------------------------------Infotech---------------------------------

  EDUPAGE: Tasty tip sheet on information technology and media issued
three times weekly. Quickie summaries primarily of newspaper articles,
primarily from the majors. Moderate length.
E-MAIL - To: [e-mail]
  Subject: Ignored
  Body: Sub Edupage Your Name

  CYBERWIRE DISPATCH: Very high quality coverage of the Internet and
cyberspace. Editor Brock Meeks a real reporter for magazine Interactive
Week in civilian life became famous by getting sued for libel by a
"make.money.fast"-type. (He settled for $64). Short.
E-MAIL - To: [e-mail]
  Subject: Ignored
  Body: Subscribe CWD-L Your@Address
USENET - comp.society.privacy
GOPHER - cyberwerks.com
WWW - http://cyberwerks.com:70/1/cyberwire

  +NANO-CONNECT! - An abridged, free version of Connect!, a strong $$$
newsletter covering the computer industry.
E-MAIL: To: [e-mail]
WWW - http://www.io.org/~jwsmith

  NSF NETWORK NEWS: Bi-monthly news on the real nuts and bolts of the net.
Mucho techie, but one issue had a good overview to telecom legislation in
Congress.
E-MAIL - To: [e-mail];
  Subject: Ignored
  Body: Subscribe NSF Network News
GOPHER - is.internic.net: About InterNIC Information Services/NSF Network..
WWW - http://www.internic.net/newsletter

  BITS AND BYTES: Good computer miscellanea. But why do so many
publications grab bits from Edupage? On the long side.
E-MAIL - To: [e-mail]
  Subject: Ignored
  Body: Subscribe Bits-n-Bytes
FTP - ftp.dana.edu: /periodic
GOPHER - gopher.dana.edu: Electronic Journals

 THE NETWORK OBSERVER: Monthly commentary and bits about the net.
Lengthy.
  E-MAIL - To: [e-mail]
  Subject: Subscribe Your Name

  NETWORKS & COMMUNITY: The emphasis here is on "community" in
Internet-land. Short and less techie than you might expect. Too much
excerpting from other net sources.
E-MAIL - To: [e-mail]
  Subject: Ignored
  Body: Subscribe Your Name
GOPHER - gopher.well.sf.ca.us: /Community/Civic Nets

  COM NET NEWS: A pub on community networking -- as in public access on the
highway -- by a technology market research guy. Not very newsy, but
thoughtful. Fairly short.
E-MAIL - To: [e-mail].
   Subject Subscribe Com Net
   Body: Ask nicely
GOPHER - gopher.well.sf.ca.us /Community/Civic Nets

  PRIVACY FORUM: Tidbits about threats to privacy from government snoops
to credit agencies. Good commentary. Moderate length.
E-MAIL - To: [e-mail]
  Subject: Ignored
  Body: subscribe
FTP - ftp.vortex.com
GOPHER - gopher.vortex.com

  COMPUTER PRIVACY DIGEST: More about privacy, but concentrating on
computers. Weekly.
E-MAIL - To: [e-mail]
USENET - comp.society.privacy
FTP - ftp.cs.uwm.edu
GOPHER - gopher.cs.uwm.edu.

  COMPUTER UNDERGROUND DIGEST: The latest news on cyberspace issues. CUD's
best when screaming about the latest hacker or BBS raid, good when picking
apart government policy issues. Then they'll reprint the entire agenda for
some upcoming computer conference (YAWN!!!). Moderate length.
E-MAIL - To:[e-mail]
  Subject: Ignored
  Body: SUB CUDIGEST YOUR NAME
USENET --  comp.society.cu-digest
FTP - ftp.eff.org: pub/Publications/CuD
GOPHER - gopher.eff.org: /pub/Publications/CuD

  EFFECTOR: The Electronic Frontier Foundation's membership newsletter,
great for telecom policy updates. Short
E-MAIL - To: [e-mail]
  Subject: Subcribe Effector
  Body: Ask nice.
Usenet: {preferred!} comp.org.eff
GOPHER - gopher.eff.org
FTP - ftp.eff.org

  RISKS FORUM: Tidbits about the risks computers present in society. One
edition touched on industrial espionage, data escape from prison, and a
strange tale of e-mail stalking. Moderate length.
E-MAIL - To: [e-mail]
USENET {preferred!} comp.risks
FTP - crvax.sri.com

  CURRENT CITES: A monthly letter for library technology, composed of
pointers to magazine articles. On the dry side, partly because
of its format.
E-MAIL - To: [e-mail]
  Subject: Ignored
  Body: Sub Cites Your Name
FTP: ftp.lib.berkeley.edu:/pub/Current.Cites.

   HOTT: Hot Off The Tree re-emerged with a lot of self-congratulations
that promised articles on latest advances in computer, communications, and
electronics technologies. Its first, HUGE issue obviously proved too
ambitious and the publication has stalled for months. Try a SMALL weekly
or something, guys.
E-MAIL - To: [e-mail]
  Subject: Ignored
  Body: Subscribe HOTT-LIST Your@Address

----------------------------------Policy----------------------------------

  +ONE SMALL STEP FOR A SPACE ACTIVIST - Get past the corny name to find is
great, in-depth reporting on legislation affecting the space program. One
of the authors is a congressional staffer who works on space issues. Bad
news: Usenet-only for now. The listserver might come back later.
USENET - sci.space.policy
HUMAN CONTACT - [e-mail]

  LEGAL BYTES: A strong review of computer law issues by Austin law
firm George, Donaldson & Ford. The big snag is it only comes out
quarterly, so don't expect the latest news. Long.
   E-MAIL - To: [e-mail]

  RACHEL'S ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH WEEKLY: Good but lengthy weekly letter from
the Environmental Research Foundation. Smurfs report that RACHEL stands for
Random Access Chemical Hazards Electronic Library, a database.
E-MAIL - To: [e-mail]
  Subject: None
  Body: include name, phone # plus e-mail AND postal addresses. Fund-
raising pitch to follow, no doubt.
FTP - ftp.std.com: /periodicals/rachel
GOPHER - gopher.std.com

  DAILY REPORT CARD: A great summary of news in K-12 education. Very
newsy. Recently cut back to thrice-weekly and comes out of the National
Education Goals Panel.
E-MAIL - To: [e-mail]
  Subject: Ignored
  Body: Subscribe Rptcrd Your Name

  EDUCATION POLICY DIGEST: Put out by educational publisher Scholastic
Inc., EDPOL addressing edu-politics, aimed primarily at teachers. Not bad.
E-MAIL - To: [e-mail]
 Subject: Ignored
 Body: Subscribe Edpol-D Your Name

  CHOICE-NET REPORT: This sort-of-weekly comes of the California Abortion
and Reproductive Rights Action League-North, culled from clips and
announcements. Short and pretty good stuff. Very newsy, not preachy.
E-MAIL - To: [e-mail]
  Subject: Subscribe
  Body: Subscribe Choice-Net
GOPHER - gopher.well.sf.ca.us
USENET - alt.activism, talk.abortion, soc.women.

  INFORMATION POLICY ONLINE: Counterprogramming privacy advocates,
Information Industry Association covers legislation regarding government
restriction on information. Too little real news, too many items about
the direct mail industry's lobbying. Moderate length.
E-MAIL - To: [e-mail]
  Subject: Ignored
  Body: Subscribe Your Name

  NAVNEWS: The Navy News Service is an internal newsletter published by
the U.S. Navy. News-lite, properly sanitized for the troops. Moderate
length.
E-MAIL - To: [e-mail]
  Subject: Ignored
  Body: SUBSCRIBE YOUR@ADDRESS
GOPHER - marvel.loc.gov; Gov. Info/Fed Info.../Info by Agency/Military...

-----------------------------Business/finance-----------------------------

  WEEKLY FUTURES MARKET: Good weekly letter on currency and commodities
futures. News, rather than touts, from a financial consultant in Taipei.
E-MAIL - To: [e-mail]
GOPHER - wuecon.wustl.edu:/holt/weekfut

  TRADE NEWS: Digest of newspaper and magazine stories on international
trade by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. Strong, brief
overview. Also publishes severla companion letters.
E-MAIL - To: [e-mail]
  Subject: Ignored
  Body: Subscribe Trade-News Your@Address
HUMAN CONTACT - [e-mail]

-----------------------------Science/medicine-----------------------------

  BLIND NEWS DIGEST: A pretty good discussion of blindness with an
emphasis on talking computers and other technical aids.
E-MAIL - To: [e-mail]
  Subject: Ignored
  Body: Subscribe Blindnws
HUMAN CONTACT [e-mail]

  PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE: Digest of physics news items.
E-MAIL - To: [e-mail]
Subject: Ignored
Body: Subscribe Physnews

  WHAT'S NEW: News, mostly tracking government research funding,
compiled by The American Physical Society. Sample headline: "DEFENSE
APPROPRIATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE BEGINS SHOOTING HOSTAGES!" Short and good
material.
E-MAIL - To: [e-mail]
  Subject: Ignored
  Body: SUBSCRIBE WHATSNEW

  PATENT NEWS SERVICE: More newswire than newsletter, this is an
excellent service on patents, both regular news bulletins and lists of
new patents.
E-MAIL - To: [e-mail]
  Subject: Ignored
  Body: Help

  AIDS DAILY SUMMARY: A great clipping service from the Center For
Disease Control, the kind of stuff Internet cheerleaders can brag about
because it's about the real world, not just insular cyberspace. High
volume.
E-MAIL - To: [e-mail]
  Subject: Subscribe Daily
  Body: Subscribe Daily Summary Your@Address
USENET sci.med.aids

  AIDS INFORMATION NEWSLETTER: A lengthy, technical bi-weekly put out by
the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs AIDS Information Center in San
Fransisco. Known on usenet as the VAMC Newsletter. Good quality, but
needs a listserver.
GOPHER - gopher.niaid.nih.gov: /VA AIDS Information Newsletter
USENET - sci.med.aids

  HICNet MEDICAL NEWS DIGEST: Something painless from a dentist. Broad
bi-weekly newsletter on medicine by Health Info-Com Network, put together
by D.D.S. David Dodell. One week featured sleep apnea and snoring plus
hemlock ! The downside is conference announcements. OK, on things like
techniques for identifying corpses, but they're still conference
announcements.
E-MAIL - To: [e-mail]
FTP - vm1.nodak.edu

  RSI NETWORK NEWSLETTER: For and by victims of repetitive stress injury
e.g. carpal tunnel syndrome.
E-MAIL - To: [e-mail]
  Subject: Ignored
  Body: Subscribe RSI
FTP - world.std.com:/pub/rsi
GOPHER - world.std.com:/pub/rsi

  CFS-NEWS: Chronic fatigue syndrome sufferers. Moderate length.
E-MAIL - To: [e-mail]
 Subject: Ignored
 Body: Sub CFS-News Your Name

  LYMENET: Launched to rise above Usenet flame wars, LymeNet Newsletter
explores research and treatment of Lyme disease, a mysterious and fairly
disabling disease prevelant in the Northeast. Moderate length.
E-MAIL - To: [e-mail]
  Subject: Ignored
  Body: Subscribe Lymenet-L Your Name
USENET sci.med
FTP - ftp.Lehigh.edu: /pub/listserv/lymenet-l/Newsletters.

  NASA DAILY: NASA and other space news.
E-MAIL - To: [e-mail]
  Subject: Ignored
  Body: Subscribe Your Name
GOPHER - world.std.com:News
WWW - http://delcano.mit.edu/

-------------------------------Foreign News-------------------------------

  YESHA NEWS SERVICE - Twice-weekly digest of news from the Israeli press
focusing on West Bank settlement communities. Put out by The Yesha Council,
an Israeli lobbying group, it's obviously not the place to find a balanced
treatments of Arafat. But given the biases, it's pretty good
E-MAIL - To: [e-mail]
Subject: Ignored
Body: Subscribe Yesha Your Name
Human contact: [e-mail]

  +ARAB PRESS RESEARCH - A strong digest of articles appearing in Arab,
Turkish, Iranian, etc. publications. Compiled something called The
Jerusalem Institute for Western Defence. Again, biased but interesting.
E-MAIL - To: [e-mail]
  Subject: Ignored
  Body: subscribe arab-press Your Name

  A@G NEWS FROM RUSSIA -- Business-oriented weekly offering 30-40
headlines from Russian newspapers. It's a tease for a cluster of different
full newsletters including Financial News, Privatization, Politics, etc.
Weak as a stand-alone pub, though the paid version looks great.
E-MAIL - To: [e-mail]
  Subject: Ignored
  Body: Sub Headline Your Name
HUMAN CONTACT - [e-mail]

  INDIA NEWS NETWORK: Well-edited news of issues related to India and the
Indian expat community.
 E-MAIL - To: [e-mail]
 Subject: Igrnored
 Body: Subscribe India-L

  NEPAL DIGEST: 'Nuff said.
  E-MAIL - To: [e-mail]
  Subject: Ignored
  Body: sub nepal lastname firstname Your@address

  ASIAINFO HEADLINE DAILY NEWS: Daily offering 30-40 headlines from
Asian markets plus 3-5 brief articles. More bait for a full $$$ report. A
good sampler, but only so-so as a stand-alone pub.
E-MAIL - To: [e-mail]
Body: Sub Headline Your Name

  RFE/RL DAILY REPORT: News on Eastern Europe popped out by Radio Free
Europe/Radio Liberty. Very cool, but heavy volume.
E-MAIL - To: [e-mail]
  Subject: Ignored
  Body: Subscribe RFERL-L YOUR NAME.

  CHINA NEWS DIGEST: Very active news service on China and various
ex-pat communities in several flavors: Global daily, US, Canada, Europe
& Pacific, and a magazine in some Chinese dialect. High volume.
E-MAIL - To: [e-mail]
  Subject: Info
  Body: Info

  SOMALIA NEWS UPDATE: Irregularly published but good; comes out of Sweden.
E-MAIL - To: [e-mail]
  Subject: Somalia request
  Body: Ask nicely

-------------------------------Satellite TV-------------------------------

  SKYGUIDE: This monthly's from a Brit who doubtless watches too much TV.
The Euro cable and satellite television scene. Concentrates on BSkyB but
also romps off onto the continent. Frequently misses deadline
E-MAIL - To: [e-mail]
  Subject: Subscribe skyguide
  Body: SUBSCRIBE SKYGUIDE YOUR@ADDRESS
  Usenet {preferred!} alt.satellite.tv.europe.

  SATNEWS: Bi-weekly on satellite television broadcasting worldwide.
E-MAIL - To: [e-mail]
  Subjec: Ignored
  Body: SUBSCRIBE YOUR-NAME
  USENET rec.video.satellite.

  SATELLITE JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL: One issue featured usual sat news plus
an Iranian cleric's "fatwah" banning home dishes and how Pakistanis evade
government censoring of Miss Universe pagent broadcasts. Fairly short.
USENET - rec.video.satellite
FTP - itre.uncecs.edu:/pub/satellite/sj
WWW http://itre.uncecs.edu/misc/sj/sj.html

  TELE SATELLIT: English-translation excerpts from the German satellite
magazine. Usenet-only, "fur die freunde", although available on several $$$
services. Moderate length.
USENET alt.satellite.tv.europe
FTP - ftp.funet.fi/pub/dx/text/satellite/telesatellit
WWW - http://xan.esrin.esa.it:2602/satellite.html

  SATELLITE NEWS DESK: Yet another satellite TV letter. The surprising
thing is that they're all pretty high quality. Headline news from British
satellite newsletter Transponder. Moderate length.
E-MAIL - To: [e-mail]

--------------------------------Randomness--------------------------------

  THIS JUST IN: A really strong weekly collection of strange news from a
California tech publisher. One issue told of a N.J. man fined for
"needlessly" killing an animal -- a rat! Also a Venezuela teen needing a
spot to relieve himself somehow went into a lion's pen. "Perez struggled
both to live and to get his pants up; a friend helped by hitting the lion
with a brick. And that brick came from ...where?" Short.
E-MAIL - [e-mail]
  Subject: Ignored
  Body: Subscribe This-Just-In
HUMAN CONTACT - [e-mail]

  +THE NEW SOUTH POLAR TIMES - The coolest net-letter, in a manner of
speaking. An ongoing, first-hand account of life at the South Pole from
Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. Web-only and tough to find.
WWW - http://www.deakin.edu.au/edu/MSEE/GENII/NSPT/NSPThomePage.html

   +ATP TOUR WEEKLY - For tennis-fanatics only. It's the official newletter
of the governing body for men's professional tennis.
E-MAIL - To: [e-mail]
  Subject: Subscribe ATP
  Body: Ask nicely.

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  HOW TO GET THE NET-LETTER GUIDE: E-MAIL - To: [e-mail];
SUBSCRIBE NET-LETTER; Usenet alt.zines, alt.etext, misc.writing,
rec.mag, alt.internet.services, and the *.answers groups.

  Far more exhaustive lists of electronic publications include:
  * The E-Zine-List by John Labovitz:
FTP -  FTP etext.archive.umich.edu:pub/Zines/e-zine-list.gz
GOPHER - etext.archive.umich.edu: Zines/e-zine-list.gz
WWW - http://www.ora.com:8080/johnl/e-zine-list/
  * The giant e-pub archive.
FTP - ftp.etext.org
GOPHER - gopher.etext.org
WWW - http://www.etext.org
  * Factsheet Five-E
GOPHER - gopher.well.sf.ca.us.
  * The Association of Research Libraries' Directory of Electronic Journals
and Newsletters
GOPHER - arl.cni.org: /11/scomm/edir

  Ways to keep up on the latest pubs include:
  * Net-Happenings:
E-MAIL - [e-mail]
  Body: Subscribe Your@Address
USENET - Comp.internet.net-happenings

  New Journals:
E-MAIL - To: [e-mail]
  Subject: Ignored
  Body: SUBSCRIBE NEWJOUR-L Your Name

  Copyright 1994 John M. Higgins. This list may be redistributed provided
that the article and this notice remain intact. This article may not
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any kind without prior written permission from John M. Higgins. That
includes publication by magazine or CD-ROM. But if you're interested,
talk to me.

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