Getting news as early as possible

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How do your news/politics youtubers get their news early? I know there are print outlets and websites but how are they notified so quickly? They seem to able to put out news very quickly.

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Many news websites have RSS feeds.

RSS feeds are basically huge text files on the news (or any other) website, with all the news in reverse chronological order. Every time they publish something new, the RSS feed gets automatically updated. There are tools that allow you to track those RSS feeds, and basically get an update every time something new comes up, possibly filtered by topic. You can also monitor multiple websites at once.

It’s something anyone can do, often for free.

Examples:

[CNN](https://edition.cnn.com/services/rss/)

[NYT](https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/index.html)

[Google News](https://news.google.com/rss?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en)

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