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Westlaw Australia Tip - Creating a Newsroom alert for Legal affairs section Australian Financial Review (AFR)

Last Published: December 03, 2021

This tip explains how to create a weekly email alert to monitor the Legal Affairs section of the AFR.

  1. On the homepage, type in Australian Financial Review and click on the suggestion to search just the AFR.
  1. In the search box type news +2 “legal affairs” and run the search.
  1. On the results page, click on Bell icon and choose Create WestClip alert to create the alert.
  1. In the Basics section, give your alert a name and click on Continue button.
  1. In the Select Content section, AFR should already be selected so click on Continue button.
  1. In the Enter Search Terms section, ensure the sort order is By Date and documents are no older than 2 weeks. Click Continue.
  1. In Customise Delivery section, enter email addresses and change the format to Inline HTML and the What to Deliver option is documents to receive the text of the articles in the email. Then click on Continue button.
  1. In the Schedule alert settings select weekly on WEDNESDAYS as there is a 3 day embargo imposed by the publisher. Save the alert.

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