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Media Monitoring & Content Analysis

A practical professional programme focused on media monitoring & content analysis, designed to strengthen communication, media capability and stakeholder engagement.

Type
Specialist
Level
Advanced
Duration
5 days
Delivery
In person, Live online, In-house
Languages
English, Arabic

Media Monitoring & Content Analysis develops the capability to monitor media systematically, classify relevant content, analyse narratives and produce decision-focused reports.

The programme examines monitoring frameworks, source selection, keywords, coding, quantitative and qualitative analysis, sentiment, themes, narratives, trends and reporting.

Participants learn how to distinguish simple content collection from structured analysis that explains what is being said, by whom, how frequently and with what implications.

Objectives

  • Develop structured media-monitoring methodologies.

  • Select appropriate sources, keywords and monitoring criteria.

  • Apply quantitative and qualitative content-analysis techniques.

  • Identify narratives, themes, sentiment and emerging trends.

  • Produce concise and decision-focused monitoring reports.

Learning outcomes

  • Design a practical media-monitoring framework.

  • Classify media content using consistent coding criteria.

  • Analyse coverage volume, themes, narratives and sentiment.

  • Identify meaningful trends and changes in media discourse.

  • Prepare structured monitoring and analysis reports.

Who it is for

  • Media-monitoring professionals.

  • Media analysts.

  • Public-relations and communications professionals.

  • Government and institutional monitoring teams.

  • Professionals responsible for media intelligence and reporting.

Programme modules

1. Media Monitoring Foundations
  • Purpose of media monitoring

  • Monitoring objectives

  • Source selection

  • Scope and coverage

2. Search and Collection Frameworks
  • Keywords

  • Search logic

  • Source categories

  • Collection discipline

3. Content Classification
  • Coding frameworks

  • Topics and themes

  • Actors and sources

  • Content categories

4. Quantitative Analysis
  • Coverage volume

  • Frequency

  • Share of voice

  • Trend comparison

5. Qualitative Analysis
  • Narratives

  • Frames

  • Sentiment

  • Message analysis

6. Media Intelligence Reporting
  • Executive summaries

  • Key findings

  • Trend interpretation

  • Implications and recommendations

Methodology

The programme combines monitoring frameworks, coding exercises, content datasets, narrative analysis and reporting practice. Participants work with realistic media material and translate collected content into structured intelligence.

Assessment

Assessment includes monitoring and content-analysis exercises and a final applied task requiring participants to analyse a defined body of media coverage and prepare a professional monitoring report.

Certificate

Certificate of Completion

For your organisation

This programme can be delivered for a single organisation, team or institution, and adapted to your context, participants and objectives.

Organisational delivery is scoped and priced individually, and is not booked from this page.

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Upcoming sessions

No dates are scheduled at present.

Training & Professional Development

Structured professional learning that develops practical, role-relevant knowledge and capability.

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Systems and evidence for understanding performance, results, impact and organisational learning.

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