Search Company News by Sentiment with Nexis Uni: Career and Professional Development Research Tip

 How will this help me? 

Do you want to identify a company’s challenges, such as mismanagement, lawsuits or layoffs?  Applying Nexis Uni’s negative news filter to searches allows you to efficiently locate a firm or its leadership’s negative press coverage. In addition to applying the negative news filter, you can target your results to specific sources and geographic regions.  By using Nexis Uni, you can search across a wide range of publications and read the full text without hitting a paywall, or locate the full text of articles you may have found headlines of in Google.

What are some key features? 

  • Click News link at top of page
  • Click Advanced Search
    • Headline and Lead Sections – enter company name
    • Date – customize news data range
    • Click Search
  • Filter returned results on left
    • Negative News
      • Includes lawsuits, layoffs, mismanagement, or incompetence.  Learn more here.
    • Search Within Results
      • Further refine your results, such as:
        • name of leader
        • competitor

Choose the news tab in Nexis Uni 

Nexis Uni home page, with news tab highlighted

Select Negative News in the results filter on the left

 

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