When filtering results by Source Type within Explore, almost all sources offer an all-or-nothing option. Select Twitter and Reddit to include only their results, or make no selection and include all results.
News, however, allows you to filter within our News database by Source and Criteria. This allows you to include or exclude content from specific news sources or article reach values.
This article will cover:
News
News is copyrighted content from news sources such as The New York Times, BBC, CNN, local newspapers, and online journals. Content posted on television networks' websites is also classified as News. Meltwater crawls and archives over 3 million traditional media articles a day through its news sources.
News is an option under the Source type filter within Explore.
Click Explore in the left-hand navigation bar
Open an existing search or create a new one
Navigate to the Source Type filter
Select the checkbox to the left of News
Filtering News Results by Source
Clicking the arrow beside the number of results for News opens a new filter that allows you to filter your News results by Source and Criteria.
Filtering News by source allows you to search for specific sources by name or URL. You then have the option to either include or exclude results from that source. You may select multiple sources. You can paste up to 2,000 URLs at a time - quickly copy/paste your comma-separated list of URLs to search all sites at once.
Click Explore in the left-hand navigation bar
Open an existing search or create a new one
Navigate to the Source Type filter
Select the checkbox to the left of News
Click the arrow to the right of the number of News results
Enter a source name or URL
Check the box to include the source, or click the circle to exclude the source.
Click Apply
Example Use Case: Looking for local covid coverage. Since covid is global, it will be difficult to look at all news. Use By Source filtering to select small, local newspapers (i.e. The News and Observer) and exclude large, national and international newspapers (i.e. The New York Times).
Filtering News Results by Criteria
Media Format
Click Explore in the left-hand navigation bar
Open an existing search or create a new one
Navigate to the Source Type filter
Select the checkbox to the left of News
Click the arrow to the right of the number of News results
Select Media Format
Select Online or Print
Click Apply
Outlet Type
Click Explore in the left-hand navigation bar
Open an existing search or create a new one
Navigate to the Source Type filter
Select the checkbox to the left of News
Click the arrow to the right of the number of News results
Select Outlet Type
Select an Outlet Type
General News
Market Research Reports
News Aggregator
Press Releases
Stock Market News
Trade Publications
Click Apply
Premium License
Filter news results based on the sources' license types. Non-premium news sources are available to all Meltwater customers. Premium licenses require an additional subscription for full content access.
Click Explore in the left-hand navigation bar
Open an existing search or create a new one
Navigate to the Source Type filter
Select the checkbox to the left of News
Click the arrow to the right of the number of News results
Select Premium License
Click the checkbox(es) next to the premium content you want to include
Click Apply
Reach
Filtering news by reach allows you to filter results from sources that fall into the specific reach percentage ranges. Global News sources will have larger reach values than small, local news sources.
Click Explore in the left-hand navigation bar
Open an existing search or create a new one
Navigate to the Source Type filter
Select the checkbox to the left of News
Click the arrow to the right of the number of News results
Select Reach
Click the checkbox(es) to the left of the reach values you want to apply
Click Apply
Value | Value Range |
Top ten % | (reach > 4231980) |
80-90% | (reach > 1297380 AND reach <= 4231980) |
70-80% | (reach > 357629 AND reach <= 1297380) |
60-70% | (reach > 144037 AND reach <= 357629) |
50-60% | (reach > 65260 AND reach <= 144037) |
40-50% | (reach > 30861 AND reach <=65260) |
30-40% | (reach > 14119 AND reach <= 30861) |
20-30% | (reach > 5815 AND reach <= 14119) |
10-20% | (reach > 1948 AND reach <= 5815) |
Bottom ten % | (reach > 0 AND reach <= 1948) |
Reach unavailable | no value |
Example Use Case: Looking for news articles mentioning my company from the top news sources globally. Select Top ten % to only include results from sources with top 10% reach.
💡 Tip
Need more help? Feel free to reach out to us via Live Chat or check out our Customer Community.
Find answers and get help from Meltwater Support and Community Experts.