I am NOT a lover of Google and a quick bit of research will disclose this corporation sits on the board of the CFR Council on Foreign Relations. It is my personal opinion that due to their invasion into your privacy, I would create a NEW gmail (Google Mail) account to be used to receive your news alerts: https://mail.google.com/mail/
It is easy to keep on top of those news issue of interest to you.
Chose a word(s) to define such issue, person, geographic location, etc.
- For example, perhaps it is the topic of: Antarctica
On Google News enter your search term(s) and press the "Search News" button
At the BOTTOM of this Google News search page you will see the following:
It is at that prompt on Google News that you can create an email alert for your particularized area of interest, in this example ANTARCTICA.