Westlaw New Zealand Tip - NewsRoom - Monitoring your key clients or companies
Last Published: November 09, 2022
- On the homepage, scroll down the page and click on NewsRoom.
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- If you would like to monitor Australian and New Zealand content, click on Australia & New Zealand News on the right-hand side of the screen.
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- If you want to monitor New Zealand Top Newspapers click on Top New Zealand newspapers. Otherwise, select the newspapers you would like to search.
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- When you have selected the newspapers you would like to monitor, if your search string is simple, type your search terms in the global search bar, e.g., "Air New Zealand".
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- You can use the advanced search template to use specific fields by clicking the Advanced link to the right of to the global search bar. If there are any organisations with similar names, you can enter the name of the organisation you would like to exclude into the But not any of these terms field.
- Tick the Excluding Documents field to remove results such as sport, obituaries, and routine financial data.
- You can also restrict your search using the date options.
- Use SmartTerms to narrow your news searches, organized by industry, subject, location, and company.
- At the bottom of the search template, the Expose and identify duplicate documents tick box allows you to remove articles that are syndicated and reprinted from one newspaper to another. This often happens with Newscorp articles.
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- Run your search and filter results as required.
- To create the email alert, click on the bell icon at the top of the results list and click on Create WestClip alert.
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