PR Newswire's ProfNet Relaunches 'Expert Alerts' Newsletter for Journalists

NEW YORK, Jan. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- PR Newswire's ProfNet, a service that revolutionized communications by linking journalists and other content creators with expert sources, has relaunched its free newsletter for journalists, Expert Alerts.

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The updated version, sent to registered journalists by email, contains comprehensive information about experts who are available to discuss timely news topics, as well as links to media job listings and other industry news and resources. Expert Alerts is distributed weekly in three editions, covering various industry sectors:

Mondays: Business, Finance & Technology
Wednesdays: Government, Law, Education & Science
Fridays: Health, Entertainment & Living

Recent newsletters have included experts on the Super Bowl, SOPA, tax planning, wedding trends, the 2012 election, and more.

To view a sample, go to ProfNet Connect

As with all of ProfNet's services for media professionals, the e-newsletter is available at no charge. To sign up to receive the Expert Alerts newsletter via email, writers can simply contact [email protected] with the edition(s) they're interested in receiving.

About ProfNet

ProfNet is a service of PR Newswire that links journalists and other writers with expert sources. Features include ProfNet Queries, via which writers can submit requests for subject-matter experts; Expert Alerts, a listing of experts who can talk about timely news topics; and ProfNet Connect, a searchable online database of nearly 50,000 PR professionals, experts and other writers. For more information, visit http://www.profnetconnect.com

About PR Newswire

PR Newswire (www.prnewswire.com) is the premier global provider of multimedia platforms that enable marketers, corporate communicators, sustainability officers, public affairs and investor relations officers to leverage content to engage with all their key audiences. Having pioneered the commercial news distribution industry 57 years ago, PR Newswire today provides end-to-end solutions to produce, optimize and target content — from rich media to online video to multimedia — and then distribute content and measure results across traditional, digital, mobile and social channels. Combining the world's largest multi-channel, multi-cultural content distribution and optimization network with comprehensive workflow tools and platforms, PR Newswire enables the world's enterprises to engage opportunity everywhere it exists. PR Newswire serves tens of thousands of clients from offices in the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa and the Asia-Pacific region, and is a UBM plc company.

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