Press Monitor

Press Monitor is Referenta's media-watching workspace. It pulls together a live feed of articles, a filter sidebar to narrow what you see, and a fast-moving ticker for breaking items. Think of it as a continuously updating dashboard for "what is the press actually saying right now."

What It's Good For

• Morning scan — quickly seeing what's been published overnight on the topics you care about.
• Reacting to a story — finding what's been said about an issue before you draft a response.
• Spotting emerging angles — noticing when coverage starts to shift in a new direction.
• Building a briefing — collecting the articles that matter, then summarizing them somewhere else.

What You'll See

Press Monitor combines three views on one page:

• The live ticker — a fast-moving strip of the most recent items.
• The sidebar — filters and navigation to narrow coverage by topic, source, time, or other attributes.
• The feed — the main article list, where you'll do most of your reading.

You can scan the ticker for breaking items, use the sidebar to focus the feed, and click into articles to read them.

A Typical Flow

Scenario: you walk into the office at 8am and your minister has just been mentioned in a story. You need a sense of the coverage in the next ten minutes.

1. Open Press Monitor from Analysis & Research.
2. Filter to the relevant topic or use the search to find articles mentioning your minister.
3. Skim the feed. Note which outlets are running the story and what angle each is taking.
4. Save the important pieces so you can reference them later.
5. Move into the Assistant with the picked-out articles attached. Ask it to draft a response that addresses the strongest points raised.

Why This Matters

Most press response work fails because it doesn't account for what's actually being said. Press Monitor closes that gap — you respond to the real conversation, not the one you imagined.

Tip: Don't Try To Read Everything

Press Monitor will surface more items than you can read in a day. That's fine. Use filters aggressively, focus on the topics that matter to your work this week, and ignore the rest. The point is to know what's being said — not to read every word of it.