Clipping services are designed to help you keep track of your press coverage or press coverage of an issue in which you are interested, by relieving you of the responsibility of following your story in the papers, on TV, over the radio and otherwise. Some clipping services are extremely expensive, and thus cost-prohibitive. Recently, free services has surfaced with the onset of Internet communications, such as Google News. Shoppers beware! Some services may cost more than others.

Bacon’s Clipping Bureau, Bacon’s Information Inc.
332 S. Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL 60604
(P) 800-621-0561/ 312-922-2400
(F) 312-922-3127
Reads general- and special-interest publications nationwide, including wire services, with the exception of the smallest rural papers. In addition, broadcast transcripts and Internet monitoring are available.

Burrelle’s/Luce Press Clippings
75 East Northfield Rd.
Livingston, NJ 07039
(P) 800-631-1160
(F) 973-992-7675
(E) moreinfo@burrellesluce.com
Reads and covers both print and broadcast media. TV/radio transcript services are designed to complement print clipping service.

Lexis-Nexis Group
PO Box 933
Dayton, OH 45401
(P) 800-227-9597
Lexis-Nexis provide a search engine for print media and public records.

Video Monitoring Services of America
330 W. 42nd St. 29th floor
New York, NY 10036
(P) 212-736-2010
(F) 212-594-2182
(E) nyassales@vidmon.com
Tracks coverage ranging from segments to commercials on both radio and TV, and print media nationwide.

Webclipping.com
A division of AllResearch, Inc.
8217 Beverly Blvd., Ste. 6
Los Angeles, CA 90048
(E) info@allresearch.com
Searches over 30 of the largest engines on the World Wide Web and all of the Usenet discussion groups, as well as electronic publications.