About

mediamonitoring.tools is a shared workspace for teams that collect and study publicly available information for research purposes.

What it is

mediamonitoring.tools is an instrument for research: for collecting, organising and analysing publicly available information. It is a collaboration instrument: a team builds its collection together, from any public source and in any language, and classifies it the way its research needs. The whole collection is searchable, and the team has tools for analysing it and for generating reports from it.

What it is not

It is not a publishing tool. It never makes anything public and does not republish or redistribute what a team collects, and it must not be used to. Each team and each collection lives in its own private workspace. Every item points back to its original source, and the rights in that material stay with whoever published it. The Terms set this out in full.

Who it is for

Researchers and research teams. Each team gets its own workspace at its own address under mediamonitoring.tools. There is no open sign-up: the service is currently invite-only. To ask about a workspace for your team, write to hello@mediamonitoring.tools.

Who runs it

mediamonitoring.tools is built and operated by its developers.

Open source

mediamonitoring.tools is open-source software, licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL). The code is on GitHub, so any team can run its own copy instead of using this hosted service.