Newsdesk improvements are driven by what customers ask for and we make a point of listening. The most recent updates take big steps forward with added functionality, including Article Sentiment, MozRank, and the ability to manage unused facets.
Article Sentiment Analysis
Sentiment allows you to evaluate whether articles are positive, neutral, or negative. Available as a new facet, a chart breakdown, and an advanced search option (ex. ‘sentiment:Positive’), it covers English language news articles rank 1-4, and will be expanding soon. There are also plans to drill down to sentiment on an entity level; the people and companies, for instance, within an article. Clients that want to have article sentiment turned on in their Newsdesk can reach out to Client Services.
MozRank
SEO specialists will recognize Moz’s MozRank metric, which is a link popularity score helpful in determining an article’s influence on the web. The ranking runs from 0 (lowest rank) to 10 (highest rank), and is currently being applied to the majority of all news sources. MozRank will appear in the search facets. It is also available as a chart breakdown in the Analytics Tab and an advanced search option (ex. ‘mozRank:4’).
New MetaCarta Facets
We’re now surfacing MetaCarta data in facets such as Article Location, Article Province, Article Country, Article Subregion, and Article Region. MetaCarta data identifies the areas mentioned in an article, so to filter a search to only see articles that talk about Crimea, open the Article Province facet and select ‘Crimea’. Please keep in mind an article can mention multiple locations, so refining just to Crimea will still show article locations of Russia, US, Germany etc. in the facets, as these areas are mentioned in relation to your refinement.
This image shows all the new facets, soon-to-be-released facet controls to the right of each name, and the Hidden Facets at the bottom (read more below in “Coming Soon”):
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New Breakdown Options in Analytics
You can now break down their feeds by Topic, Stock Ticker and the OpenCalais powered Person, Company, Organization and Product data in charts.
“site:” Search
Newsdesk now allows searches for articles by domain. The advanced search command ‘site:’ works the same as a Google site: search, meaning a site:bbc.co.uk search will only return articles from the BBC. Users don’t necessarily need to know an exact Moreover source name as simply searching on the domain will return relevant results.
Clickable Author Names
Author names are now clickable whenever an author’s URL is available. The best examples are microblog content such Twitter and Sina Weibo.
Coming Soon:
Facet Control
The facet list down the right side of a search can be long, and not all of them are always needed. Soon you will be able to click the small hyphen to the right of each facet to hide it. Hidden facets can be unhidden later from a menu at the bottom of the list.