1. WEB SITES THAT WILL MAIL OUT YOUR PRESS RELEASE, or sell you media email addresses.

PR NEWSWIRE
For General News items try using PR Newswire at
http://www.prnewswire.com.
They post hundreds of press releases a day so make sure that yours is good so that it stands out from the crowd. If you can't write a good release yourself consider hiring a pro to do it for you. Writers charge anything from $50 $250 a page. Some change thousands. But remember you can gain many thousands
of dollars of free publicity/advertising from the right release. Just make sure that it's something the media will consider is news. PR Newswire charge around $300 to send out your release.

BUSINESSWIRE
For business of financial news use Businesswire, at
http://www.businesswire.com.
Again they pump out hundreds of releases a day, and charge you around $500 for the privilege of sending your release. They're so expensive because they have a great targeted list of business and finance writers they mail to. So if your release doesn't deal with those fields forget Businesswire.

IMEDIAFAX
Another place to consider is Imediafax, at
http://www.imediafax.com.
where you email them your releases and they distribute it by fax for 25c a page. You can carefully target your audience to people in the field your trying to reach, and it's reputed to bring great results. But at 25c a page it soon adds up to big dollars.

DIRECT CONTACT
Sell up-to-date media email addresses on disc or in a book.You can buy a list for $99 from Direct Contact at 1-800-457-8746.

GEBBIE PRESS
The number One site has to be GEBBIE PRESS with lots of tips and tricks about public relations and internet marketing. Plus 7000 links to print and electronic media on the internet, 2800 email addresses for radio and tv stations, and 200 links to internet and computer related magazines. You can either click on the links and visit all 7000 newspapers listed and try to find their email address, or you can buy a disc with the addresses, or buy mailing labels.
http://www.gebbieinc.com

INTERNET NEWS BUREAU
A cheaper answer is to use the Internet News Bureau
who email your message to over 2000 journalists, me
included. I know it works because I often make use of the information they send me when I'm writing my computer columns. Prices start at $55 for a couple of paragraphs introducing your web site, and it costs around 3 times that for a longer press release.
http://www.newsbureau.com/welcome.cgi?1266

MEDIA-LIST
A pay site ....quite low fees...Site has a searchable database of media contacts and allows a user to browse by industry, create downloadable files, and generate an email mailing to any industry segment. http://media-list.com/

MEDIA-FINDER
Online media search at http://www.mediafinder.com/index.cfm
lists around 90,000 publications. Shows things like editors names, readership, a paragraph on the aims of the publication, phone and fax number. No addresses, and very few have emails addresses listed. But a good reference guide. Of course, you can get the lot if you pay

2. WEB SITES THAT OFFER MEDIA RESOURCES, LINKS, AND FURTHER ADVICE

AJR NEWSLINK
http://www.newslink.org
has some great lists and helpful articles.

ONLINE NEWSPAPER LINKS
If you're willing to do all the work yourself try this Australian directory which has a page containing links to 3000 online newspapers throughout the world.
http://www.webwombat.com.au/intercom/newsprs/index.htm

MEDIA INFO LINK'S
And so does MEDIA INFO LINK'S online media directory at http://www/mediainfo.com/emedia

LINKS TO AGENCIES
For a good list of world-wide news agencies, such as UPI and Reuters, you can't beat
http://www.dds.nl/~kidon/media-link/agencies.shtml
which also has hundreds of other media links.

CINE MEDIA
And there's CINE MEDIA which bills itself as the largest film and media listing in the world with over 18000 entries. You'll find it at
http://www.afionline.org/CineMedia/welcomes/you.html

PR PLACE - A FREE US MEDIA GUIDE
Your One-Stop Directory for Names, Addresses and Phone Numbers of Major Print and Broadcast Media in the U.S. No email addresses, so no good for online press releases, but you can access the names, addresses and phone numbers of major U.S. media. You may print the lists as you see fit. They come from MDS's FREE "Pocket Media Guide," which you can order at the site.
http://www.prplace.com/mds_guide/index.htm

ALSO AT PR PLACE
The Quick-Find Internet Source on Public Relations
http://www.prplace.com/
PR PLACE is your World Wide Web connection to the public relations field and related interests. It includes addresses and hot links to PR organizations and
publications, on-line news services and databases, journalism interest groups, and more.

PRESS RELEASE HELP
You can find Press Release Help at
http://bblmedia.com/press_release_help.html


SAMPLE PRESS RELEASES
And sample releases at Ron Ruiz's Free Publicity & Promotion Resource Center
http://www.free-publicity.com/


The NETrageous
Publicity Resource Center
http://www2.netrageous.com/netrageous/pr/index.html
The site concentrates on helping you get heaps of free publicity for your product. They provide great on and offline resources, from people who have generated millions of dollars of free publicity themselves.

Public Relations Online Resources
http://www.impulse-research.com/impulse/resource.html
An excellent set of links from Impulse Research Corporation covering P.R. services, associations, self-promotion sites, people finders, and various online publications.  

Marketing SuperSite http://www.ntu.edu.sg/library/advrtise.htm
This resource list from the National Technology University in Singapore is almost too big. Contains links to a massive number of articles and web sites concerned with promotion, marketing and commerce on the Internet.

THE SEVLOID GUIDE
The Sevloid Guide to Web Publicity
http://www.sev.com.au/webzone/webpubli.htm
John Cook's primer on web publicity is not bad for the beginner: it's easy to leaf through and learn something. It's a step by step guide to Web site promotion, featuring over 18 strategies on building your site traffic. . A good place to visit and very informative.

3. SITES WITH FREE LISTINGS OF JOURNALISTS EMAIL ADDRESSES.

GUGERELL
Definitely bookmark this site! Austrian Peter Gugerell provides contact information for media worldwide. Send your press releases to reporters all over the globe:
USA, Europe, Canada, Middle East, Pacific Rim and many more. A tremendous resource.
http://www.gugerell.co.at/gugerell/media/
And here's a links page which  contain links to newspapers, magazines and journalistic resources of all kind:
http://www.gugerell.co.at/gugerell/media/e2indx.htm


CLICK PRESS DIRECT
An amazing site which gives you free access to the email addresses of over 1800 American journalists. CLICK PRESS DIRECT puts you in contact with over 1800 of the nation's top business newspapers and magazines. This site is especially helpful because it contains direct links to the editors and reporters who determine content for their publications.
http://www.ideasiteforbusiness.com/cpress1.htm
and
http://www.ideasiteforbusiness.com/direct.htm