Obtaining press releases

is there a service

[ionchannels]

Is there a service where one can get press releases for posting on your website. Specifically I want to get press releases from universities related to their research. Is there a pay-service which organizes these and allows one to post the full text of the press release? Thanks in advance...

[trillianjedi]

Press Releases are by their very nature intended to be re-printed and circulated.

Try a few searches on your keywords in Google News - if the press releases you're looking for show up, try setting a google alert for them.

TJ

[ionchannels]

What I'm looking for is more of an API-based solution with a large archive of releases - I don't want to do it manually, I want everything preformatted in xml...

[ionchannels]

I should clarify, scraping google news results is easy, but against the TOS. I want to gather the news information legitimately and I'm willing to pay for it...

[Receptional]

Yes - I am sure there are services. You should lok at the websites of the main news agencies for the really good releases:

Reuters / Asssociated Press / ananova / PRNewswire / PRWeb / Moreover

I think the last three on this list will have something along the lines you are looking for. However, the nature of the content you want is a bit more tough... I don't know where academics release their papers, but they are usually through journals, not press releases - like the Lancet.

Happy hunting.

[andye]

I think Newsgater can filter a bunch of newsfeeds for you to find the ones which mention specific keywords, and give you an RSS feed of them.

Might be worth a look.

hth, a.

[Syzygy]

Is there a service where one can get press releases for posting on your website.

Yes, there are many...

Specifically I want to get press releases from universities related to their research.

Lol! Yes, there are some - and beyond. Some better than others. I use them daily. BTW: this is a fascinating sector, much developed over the last couple of years. (Hence your interest I presume...)

Is there a pay-service which organizes these and allows one to post the full text of the press release?

No. Not that I'm aware of - and I'm in the sector (there are a couple of contrived feeds that I've come across, but you'll end up paying for news already broken. That means you will get news several days old.)

Breaking news on research is cutting edge - you have to do the digging around for the stories yourself!

As an aside, why can't the seekers of fresh news have a reporters nose?

Syzygy

[ControlEngineer]

There may be subscription services that you can use. I have never looked into it because I am cheap.

However, if you can it would be far better to obtain the press release from the university sites. They will usually require some editing, at least removing the stuff designed only for editors (about who in the press office they can call) and perhaps adding some more information or relevent links to other related stories or sites. This would provide some more value than just pure press releases.

You can put a university name and "research" into google news, scan the results for a listing that says "(press release)", check that page. It is usually a press release service. On that page there may be subscription information. Also on that page should be a direct link to the university's press office and page with lists of new press releases.