The Europe Media Monitor (EMM) is a fully automatic system that analyses both traditional and social media. It gathers and aggregates about 300,000 news articles per day from news portals world-wide in up to 70 languages.
The EMM Alert system detects and classifies articles as they appear in the media. Each alert definition consists of a list of multilingual keywords (the bait) designed to catch articles (the fish). When caught, a reference to the article is placed into the appropriate category. Alerts are grouped under a general heading (e.g. the EC Political Priorities, or the EU Policy Areas). Under the World section, country watch pages track trends for individual countries.
By default, the layer in the Africa Knowledge Platform displays the latest geo-localised articles caught with the keyword “Africa” but without geo-restriction (meaning an article about Africa from a German newspaper can be displayed – but only if geospatial metadata are available for this article). By clicking on a point you can see the article title, the date and time it was published and the link to the original source so that the full article may be read.
You can also search for other articles by keyword (topic, country name, etc) and the map will show you the latest geo-tagged articles answering to the keyword.
The EMM News Brief is generated automatically every 10 minutes, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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