Two simple ones, the AlchemyAPI News product is a crawler&#x2F;flagging system so you don&#x27;t have to write a web scraper to pull results of Google News. The second being that it&#x27;s processing concepts, keywords, and entities so you can catch stories that mention the movers and shakers in the space without a giant regex.<p>That said, being well read and subscribing to a number of news sources is a solid way of keeping up to date on a topic you&#x27;re interested in. There are few short cuts that are as effective as that.