2014 was a year of significant product enhancements and expanding resources for Moreover with the acquisition by LexisNexis.
In 2014, the total number of new articles increased 11.25% to an all-time high of 555,751,823. In 2015, look for the number of sources to grow substantially as the strengths of Moreover and LexisNexis are combined to provide an unmatched, comprehensive suite of content.
“Becoming part of LexisNexis is a winner for Moreover and for our customers for two big reasons,” said Paul Farrell, President at Moreover. “First, the combination of our web-based media content and services with licensed news and information from LexisNexis creates an unbeatable resource for customers that will save time and help them quickly arrive at more informed decisions; and second, the assets, expertise and reach of LexisNexis, combined with Moreover world-class product development and technology, will enable us to enhance and grow our offering around the globe.”
A look back at Newsdesk 2014 improvements:
Broadcast Player
The Broadcast player lets you edit (clip), download, and save TV and radio clips to your local computer. We improved text highlighting and performance and added viewership/audience information, which can be used for media analysis.
Comment Enhancements
With upgraded viewing of Newsdesk article comments, you automatically see three associated comments and an option to “Show More Article Comments.” Simply click to see 10 more comments. You can continue to click and display additional comments until all are shown.
Five New Search Facets
Article Sentiment
Entity Sentiment
MozRank
Reach
Article Language
Article Data Download Increase
You can now download up to 20,000 articles from Analytics at one time. Accessing up to four times as much data in one download saves time and decreases the need to split a larger search into smaller 5,000 article chunks.
Newsdesk Phone App
Our free smartphone app comes with six topical newsfeeds to keep you in the know on Breaking News, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Sports, and Technology. It is now available at the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
Metabase product improvement highlights:
JSON
We introduced an alternative to XML for exchanging data, allowing delivery of the Metabase payload in a JSON format. To take advantage of JSON, simply add this to a Metabase call request:
‘&format=json’
Linking User Comments to News Articles
We’ve enriched the metadata for user comments by linking <mediaType>Comment</mediaType> posts back to the original news article or blog post they appeared on. With over 750,000 comments harvested each week, from global news sites such as CNN.com, Telegraph.co.uk, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera English, NZZ.ch and Les Echos, you can map conversations well beyond the starting point of the story and into the user discussion it generates.
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