This is a great feature allowing you to further discover journalists and online news content by looking up specific keyword mentions OR by utilising Boolean. 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 you to:

Firstly, navigate to the module >

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. This is similar to the OR operator when using Boolean.

"All" keywords will find articles that must contain every word or phrase specified. This is similar to the AND operator when using Boolean.

"Exclude" keywords will find articles that do not contain these words or phrases. This is similar to the AND NOT operator when using Boolean.

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

What is Boolean Search?

Boolean Search uses a combination of keywords and the three main Boolean operators (AND, OR and NOT) to organise and sift through your searches. It produces more accurate and relevant results, allowing you to navigate through relevant articles, while disregarding unrelated results.

The Boolean operators that are currently supported with explanation:

Boolean searches can be done on any search engine across the Internet using certain symbols and there is no restriction on how many you use in one search string.

Five elements of Boolean search:

1. AND: placing AND between search terms will cause results to include both (or all) of the keywords. The search terms that follow the AND must appear in the search results.

2. OR: using OR when you want to search for something that has the possibility of including either set of search terms. All combination possibilities will come up.

3. AND NOT: useful when you want to exclude a specific search term from appearing in any results. This will prevent the terms from coming up.

4. Quotation marks "": when you want to search for an exact phrase, use quotation marks around that phrase.

5. Parentheses (): placing parentheses allows separation of the terms and preference to be given to specified ones.

Please note: we also have automatic validation enabled when you are writing your boolean. This will confirm if you have made any mistakes in your string >

Examples of errors:

These syntax errors will be listed to provide insight into what went wrong, and what needs to be resolved before continuing. The Validate button can be used to manually check the formatting for any errors and you must re-validate once these are resolved to Run the search for results.

Published Date - To select the date range, use the "Select Date" dropdown on the top right of the platform. This is the date/time when the article was posted online. If no dates are specified, the default search is the last 3 months >

Over on the left hand side of the platform, below the keyword/boolean options, you have additional filters to assist with your search >

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.

With saved search, once you have selected all filters required, you can then save these so you can come back to the search later on >

Click "Create" to save your current selection of filters you have selected, type in a name for your search and click "Save" >

In the future to use a previously created search, click the "Load" button at the top of the News Archive filters, and select the relevant search. Finally click "Load" to bring up coverage which matches the filters you previously selected >

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

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

Clicking on individual articles will display a preview pane that shows you a snippet of the first 250 words of the article.

If your keywords are within the snippet they will be highlighted. If they are outside of the snippet they will not be highlighted.

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

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

Each export is limited to 5,000 records.

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

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