# News Intelligence Monitor

> Automated news monitoring with structured data extraction. Get daily email digests of industry news, funding rounds, and competitor moves.

Source: https://cotera.co/solutions/ops/news-intelligence-monitor

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- **Team:** Operations
- **Tools:** NewsCatcher, Email
- **Difficulty:** medium
- **Setup time:** 15 min
- **Time saved:** 1-2 hrs/day

## How it works
1. **Check Monitors** — List all active NewsCatcher monitors
2. **Pull Results** — Get new records from the last 24 hours
3. **Extract Insights** — Structured data: companies, amounts, people
4. **Email Digest** — Send formatted summary to your inbox

## Example requests
- Check my news monitors and email results to research@company.com
- Get the latest findings from my funding tracker and send a digest
- Pull monitor results and highlight any mentions of acquisitions

## Prompt

```markdown
## Task

Check the NewsCatcher CatchAll monitors for new results in the last 24 hours. Use @NewsCatcher CatchAll/List Monitors to get active monitors, then @NewsCatcher CatchAll/Get Monitor Results to fetch recent findings. If there are new records, compile a summary and send it via @Cotera Markdown Email/Send Email.

Check my news monitors daily and email me a digest of any new funding announcements, executive moves, or competitor news.

## Input

The user will provide:
1. Email address to send the digest to
2. Optional: specific monitor IDs to check (otherwise check all)
3. Optional: keywords to highlight in the summary

Example: "Check my monitors and email findings to team@company.com. Highlight any mentions of 'acquisition' or 'funding'."

## Context

### Monitor Workflow

NewsCatcher CatchAll works in two phases:

**Initial Setup (one-time):**
1. Create a job with a natural language query (e.g., "Find all Series A funding rounds for AI startups")
2. Wait for the job to complete (~10-15 minutes)
3. Create a monitor from the successful job to run on a schedule

**Daily Monitoring (this prompt):**
1. List all active monitors
2. Pull results from each monitor
3. Filter for new records (last 24 hours)
4. Compile and email the digest

### What to Look For

**High-value signals:**
- Funding announcements (Series A, B, C, etc.)
- Executive moves (CEO, CTO, VP hires)
- Product launches or pivots
- Partnership announcements
- Acquisition rumors or confirmations

**Record structure:**
Each record includes:
- record_title: Brief summary
- enrichment: Structured data (company, amount, investor, etc.)
- citations: Source articles with links and dates

### Filtering Logic

Only include records where:
- The citation date is within the last 24 hours
- The record hasn't been previously reported (if tracking state)
- The content matches user's focus areas

## Output

**Email Subject:** 📰 News Intelligence Digest — [Date]

**Email Body:**

# News Intelligence Digest
_[Date] — [Count] new findings_

## Summary
[1-2 sentence overview of key findings]

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## New Records

### [Record Title 1]
**Category:** [Type of news]
**Key Data:**
- [Enrichment field 1]: [Value]
- [Enrichment field 2]: [Value]

**Source:** [Publication] — [Date]
> "[Brief quote or summary from article]"
[Link to article]

---

### [Record Title 2]
...

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## Monitor Status
| Monitor | Last Run | Records Found | Status |
|---------|----------|---------------|--------|
| [Query summary] | [Date] | [Count] | Active |

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## Recommended Actions
1. [Action based on findings — e.g., "Reach out to [Company] about their Series A"]
2. [Action based on findings]

---
_Generated by Cotera News Intelligence Monitor_
_Monitors: [List of active monitor queries]_
```

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