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News Archive now available!
News Archive now available!

Adhoc searching of our archive of online news content

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Written by Stefan
Updated over a year ago

Release available 21.07.22


​This new module will be gradually enabled for existing online media monitoring users. The monitoring licence your organisation holds may also restrict access to this content.

Introduction

We're excited to launch our Historical News Archive and Analytics Panel!

This is a great feature allowing you to further discover journalists and online news content by looking up specific keyword mentions. The news archive will also enable you to search for relevant topics/brands/people and help with your analysis & benchmarking.

This new module will allow users to:

  • Search over 100 million online news articles, spanning across local, national and international publications

  • Access 1-year of historical news content

  • Filter and segment your data by author, publication and different geographies

  • Export and download content into a CSV file

Searching articles

A keyword search allows you to track your online presence, your brand, or specific article subjects that matters using a set of keywords or phrases. We support the following conjunctions:

"Any" Keywords will find articles that match at least one of these words or phrases.

"All" keywords will find articles that must contain every word or phrase specified

"Exclude" keywords will find articles that do not contain these words or phrases.

"Search: Headline & Body" allows you to specify whether these keywords must appear in the Headline, Body or both areas of the article.

More filters can help you limit your results further as required:

Published Date - This is the date/time when the article was posted online. If no dates are specified, the default search is the last 30 days.

Country - The location of the outlet/website where the article was posted. We have content available globally (providing English-language only) so this can be used to find international content.

Focus - Limit results based on the distribution area or scope of the website, e.g. Local vs International.
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Outlet Name - The website/publication name where the article is posted

Rank - Outlets are ranked between 1 to 4:

Rank 1 - Top international, national, and business news sources.

Rank 2 - Top regional sources.

Rank 3 - Broad range of news sources of good editorial quality.

Rank 4 - Broad range of news sources, newswire sources and sources with a local focus.

Stream Type - Allows filtering between online and print articles (when made available in future)
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Viewing Results

Below is an outline of the results you'll get access to:

  1. The total number of articles, Sorting
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    This is the total count of articles found based on your search criteria. It will appear on the top-left and you can navigate through pages of results on the top-right.
    There's also a button to change the sort order as required (default: Relevance).

  2. Outlet, Author and Date
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    Articles display key information such as the Outlet where it was published and the author that wrote the article, if this extra info is known. The publish date & time is displayed in the opposite corner:

  3. Headline and Snippet
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    Article results display the headline and a snippet of the body text. All keywords used to search will be highlighted to help show the relevant matches to you:

  4. Stream Type, Location, and Domain URL
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    The Stream Type is highlighted, in addition to the Country of origin and the Domain URL of the Outlet where it was published:

  5. Link to the original article

Finally, a link is available that will allow you to visit the original, full article:

Preview Pane

Clicking on individual articles will display a preview pane that shows you the entire body text of content (where available) without navigating away from your search results.

The keyword highlighting continues throughout the entire text to help identify the matches based on your search:

Additional Outlet data & intelligence will be made available on this pane in future.

Export

It is possible to save your article search results into an exportable CSV file.

Each export is currently limited to 1,000 records.

Select specific articles individually or choose to select all at the top - then go to Actions > Export CSV.

FAQ

  • What Meta-data is available?

    We currently display the Author, Language, Country, Visits per Month, Rank, Domain, where the data is available.
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  • How far back does the news archive go?
    12 months
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  • What Boolean search capabilities does it have?
    We support: AND, OR, AND NOT
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  • Are articles linked to Contacts & Outlets within the media database?
    No - there may be options to integrate with the database in future.
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  • Is there a limit to exports?
    Exports are currently limited to 1,000.
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  • Do I need to have media monitoring before getting access to the archive?
    The news archive will be enabled for existing media monitoring clients, as these already have an NLA & CLA licence and can therefore view this content without any further implications.
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  • What licencing restrictions are there?

    The Online articles we've chosen to make available from launch can display the full body text with no restrictions.
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  • What licences do I need to access this monitoring content?
    An NLA & CLA online licence is required to access this content.

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