How do I... - Thursday 18 March 2021
How to create an alert with the Financial Times
You are monitoring information on a specific topic? It is possible to receive articles published in the FT directly in your mailbox.
The FT is a leading British business and financial daily. Please note that creating an ft.com account with the ESSEC form is required before creating an alert.
Once logged into your ESSEC ft.com account, it is possible to follow topics in order to receive weekly articles by email. It is also possible to set up your account to receive articles on the topics that interest you the most as soon as they are published.
First of all, you launch a search on the topic of your choice: company, personality, issue...
On the result page, click on the result being relevant for you, it appears in red when you can actually click on it:
Once on the related page, click on the "+ Add to myFT" button to add it to your myFT space:
When you go to your myFT space, you will see that the topic is there. By default, you will receive an email every Friday listing the articles on the topics you follow and that have been published during the week. It is possible to receive an email for each new publication by selecting the "Instant alert" option:
Other resources offer the possibility to create alerts, such as Indexpresse Business.
