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September 25, 2005 8:58 AM

I'm looking for a way to have articles (in English) sent to me on certain subjects automatically from global new sources based on a certain topic. Does anyone know the best way to do this, without signing up at each newspaper for example?
posted by dearleader to media & arts (10 comments total)

Google News Alerts?

Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic.
posted by yeoz at 9:00 AM on September 25, 2005

Google news alerts?
posted by terrapin at 9:01 AM on September 25, 2005

You can do this using Google news alerts.

If you do a search on Google News at the bottom of the search you can subscribe to alerts.

You can for example sign up for all Metafilter related news or websites.

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posted by sebas at 9:03 AM on September 25, 2005

JINX!
posted by wheelieman at 9:03 AM on September 25, 2005

great, thanks!
posted by dearleader at 9:16 AM on September 25, 2005

What about Google news alerts?
posted by blue_beetle at 9:27 AM on September 25, 2005

Or RSS aggregation if you need to specifically choose the target publications, and they publish feeds.
posted by wackybrit at 10:39 AM on September 25, 2005

Also, have you considered customized Google News as your start page?
posted by Meatbomb at 10:57 AM on September 25, 2005

I use Google News Alerts exclusively, but there's also Yahoo News Alerts.
posted by Mo Nickels at 11:56 AM on September 25, 2005

Google news alerts will allow you to specify any search string you want and it will send you anything you like. You can un-sub any time you like, if it starts giving you useless stuff.

(I followed Mt. St. Helens for about a year, the last six months were useless so I just deleted it.)
posted by unrepentanthippie at 12:19 PM on September 25, 2005