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Twelve in-depth articles by Zoltán Varga. Each one answers a single question, starting with the short answer.
Setting Up AI-Assisted Press Monitoring: Sources, Feeds, Alerts
A practical guide to building compliant, automated pipelines for collecting web, academic, and social media data without legal risk.
Grouping Duplicate and Syndicated Coverage in Monitoring
A technical guide to clustering syndicated news and rewritten agency copy so your reports reflect actual events, not redundant hits.
Measuring the Attention Cycle of a News Story: Peaks, Decay, and Resurfacing
An analytical guide to quantifying how long news stories remain visible and distinguishing fading topics from those ready to return.
Monitoring What AI Assistants Say About Your Organisation
Treat generative AI as a monitored media channel with repeatable testing panels and systematic error tracking.
Detecting Coordinated Behaviour in Comment Sections
A practical guide to distinguishing organic public reaction from manufactured astroturfing campaigns in digital media.
Press and Social Monitoring Tools: Landscape and Limits
A technical comparison of social listening pipelines, network analysis libraries, and the specific limitations facing smaller-language markets.
Press Clippings and the Law: What a Monitoring Service May Share
A practical checklist for distinguishing between internal analysis storage and the legal redistribution of protected content to clients.
Alert Thresholds: When a Media Mention Needs a Response
A practical checklist for setting alert thresholds and escalation ladders based on attention cycles and AI-answer signals.
Social Platform Monitoring: API Limits and Collection Constraints
Platform restrictions and legal shifts mean your monitoring data is inherently partial; here is how to measure and disclose those gaps.
Monitoring Video and Podcasts Through Transcripts
A practical guide to converting audio and video streams into searchable, legally compliant text for media intelligence systems.
Press Monitoring Glossary: Clips, Clusters, Share of Voice
A practical glossary defining core monitoring terms, their calculation methods, and the specific pitfalls that distort data interpretation.
AI-Assisted Press Monitoring: Accuracy, Limits, and Human Oversight
AI tools now handle data collection and grouping, but human oversight remains critical for legal compliance, linguistic nuance, and strategic interpretation.