Core Services

Online News

Online news includes reporting published by digital-native outlets, newspapers, broadcasters, wire services, and magazines on the web. It is important for reputation, market signals, policy developments, and fast-moving public information.

Why Canada-specific online monitoring matters

In Canada, the media environment is both national and bilingual. Important narratives often move differently across English and French outlets, and a purely global or U.S.-centric monitoring product will miss that nuance. Teams working on Canada need source selection, query logic, and reporting designed for the Canadian media market itself.

What Problem Does It Solve?

Generic monitoring tools often mix Canada with U.S. or global coverage, which weakens local relevance. They also miss the practical need to follow both English and French outlets together. This service solves that by limiting the media universe to Canadian online news sources and organizing monitoring around the realities of the Canadian market.

Who Is It For?

Corporate communications, public affairs, and reputation teams tracking coverage in Canada.

Government, NGO, and policy teams monitoring how issues are framed across Canadian news outlets.

Marketing and competitive-intelligence teams comparing visibility across the Canadian media landscape.

Automation and AI teams that need a clean Canada-focused online news layer for alerts, summaries, and analysis.

Key Benefits

Monitor a media universe restricted to Canadian online news outlets instead of a noisy international mix.

Cover Canadian newspapers, Canadian TV and radio news sites, and other digital news outlets in one service.

Track both English- and French-language media inside the same Canada workflow.

Support alerts, dashboards, exports, API usage, and MCP workflows with more relevant source coverage.

Reduce noise and improve decision quality for teams focused on Canada.

Use Cases

Daily monitoring of brands, executives, issues, and competitors in Canadian online media.

Tracking of campaigns, launches, crises, and public debates across Canada.

Comparison of visibility and narrative shifts between English and French Canadian outlets.

Feeding AI agents with Canada-specific media results for summaries and alerts.

How It Works

Press Monitor selects relevant Canadian online news sources based on your topics, entities, and themes.

Coverage is collected, classified, and structured for monitoring across Canadian outlets in both English and French.

The results can then flow into the web app, exports, alerts, API integrations, and MCP workflows.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is the coverage limited to Canada? Yes. The online media universe for this service is restricted to Canadian news outlets.

Does it include both English and French Canadian media? Yes. That bilingual scope is a core part of the product.

Can we use it in automated workflows? Yes. The service can be used through the web app, API, and MCP.

Getting Started

Start by defining the brands, issues, competitors, executives, and themes you want to track across Canadian online media. Press Monitor then structures the service around a Canada-only source universe spanning both English and French outlets. If your team needs ongoing Canadian monitoring, the annual plan is usually the better commercial choice because you pay for only 10 months and get 12 months of access, which gives you 2 months free.

Pricing

Credit-based pricing with different rates for headlines, briefs, and full-text articles.

Tier	Credits	Price	Overage Cost
Micro	200	CAD 30/mo CAD 300/yr	CAD 0.18/credit
Starter	1,000	CAD 120/mo CAD 1,200/yr	CAD 0.15/credit
Business	4,000	CAD 300/mo CAD 3,000/yr	CAD 0.09/credit
Enterprise	20,000	CAD 900/mo CAD 9,000/yr	CAD 0.06/credit

Pricing Explanation

Credit-based pricing with different rates for headlines, briefs, and full-text articles.

How Pricing Works

Credit Usage

Credits are consumed based on the type of content you receive:

Headlines:1 credit per article

Briefs (summaries):2 credits per article

Full Text:5 credits per article

How It Works

Each plan includes a monthly credit allowance
Credits are consumed when articles are delivered
Choose the content depth that matches your needs
Unused credits do not roll over to the next month

Plan Features Comparison

Feature	Micro	Starter	Business	Enterprise
Number of Queries	1	3	10	30
Email Recipients	1	5	20	100
Webhooks	1	3	10	20
Portfolio Companies	1	10	40	200

Pro Tip: Start with headlines to maximize your credit usage, and upgrade to briefs or full text for topics that need deeper analysis.