If a newspaper prints an edition every day, aren’t you curious how citizen journalists scoop the news? If so, keep reading for I’m about to share one of many strategies.
With this blog post, I am beating the Newburyport Daily News at its own game.
Here’s one way:
I receive a number of Google Alerts daily; some, several times a day. (I recently wrote a Google Alert guide on how and why to implement monitoring your name and relevant keywords.)
One alert involves Newburyport, the community where I live.
Buried near the bottom today was this bit:
This caught my eye, as I didn’t see anything mentioned in today’s local news coverage. I recalled his town hall-style meeting in adjacent Amesbury last summer which was well-attended. The Daily News covered the facts.
Clicking to the respective Boston Herald article, I saw that Governor Deval Patrick plans to visit 15 communities this summer with the goal of “learning more about how state government can do better.”
The article mentioned a schedule was released yesterday. I clicked to the Governor’s website on mass.gov and saw the relevant press release. You don’t have to click that. Here’s the news in twitter-style:
Governor Patrick will visit Newburyport on Tuesday, July 21 at 6:30 p.m.
That was easy. Why the Newburyport Daily News can’t write a short brief is a wonder to me. Maybe it will be in tomorrow’s edition. I can only hope. In the meantime, folks like Tom Salemi and Gillian Swart and I will continue to do what we do best.
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Thats the first time I heard anything good about Google alert.
From my own experience you only receive a lot of junk and spam by affiliates trying to market their stuff…
Lukasz
Like the person above said, don’t you receive lots of junk and spam messages too? I am asking that because I think about using Google Alert.