News Resources Consist of Negative Business, People Reports
Sometimes the bad news is the news you need. For due diligence, for Sarbanes-Oxley “Know Your Customer” requirements, for litigation prep—even for client development—negative news about people and businesses can be essential. Too bad you can’t search for bad /5 news and get comprehensive or accurate results.
But you can pinpoint important negative information about an individual or business through LexisNexis News & Business sources—without lengthy, complicated search strings.
Two new Negative News sources are derived from the Mega News group file and include more than 22,000 news sources, including Factiva® news sources. Select Mega News, Negative Personal News (short name: NEWS;MGANPN) to find adverse or unfavorable news relating to a specific person. Mega News, Negative Business News (short name: NEWS;MGANBN) will help you find adverse or unfavorable information regarding a business entity.
Both Negative News sources leverage LexisNexis SmartIndexing Technology™ terms to simplify research for adverse news. These negative terms—hundreds of words and phrases selected and tested by the LexisNexis team of expert indexers—are based on the vocabulary that defines a particular topic. For example, phrases for Negative Business News include:
- business downturn
- company’s mismanagement
- corporate problems
- deceptive business practices
- deceptive sales practices
- stock fell
Negative Personal News looks for a large range of phrases such as:
- arraigned
- arrested
- facing charges
- a suspect in
- suspected of
- under arrest
- under investigation
If enough negative vocabulary is present in the document, it is tagged and included automatically in the appropriate negative news files.
The entire document does not need to be negative in order for it to be included. And even if a document contains positive discussion of a company or person, it will be tagged for Negative News resources if it also contains negative discussion.
The LexisNexis News & Business team, working in conjunction with the LexisNexis SmartIndexing Technology editors, will continue to add relevant terms to enhance negative news search results.
Search Tips
To add precision to your research in Negative News sources, consider adding:
1. The COMPANY or PERSON segment to your search, e.g.:
SOURCE: Mega News, Negative Business News
*SEARCH: COMPANY(behemoth)
OR
SOURCE: Mega News, Negative Personal News
*SEARCH: PERSON(john doe)
2. A relevancy score, e.g., articles at least 80% relevant to a specific person or business. For example:
SOURCE: Mega News, Negative Personal News
*SEARCH: PERSON(john doe PRE/2 8*% OR 9*%)
3. The HLEAD (in the headline or lead paragraph) segment and the ATLEASTn operator to your person or company search.
For example:
SOURCE: Mega News, Negative Business News
*SEARCH: COMPANY (behemoth)OR HLEAD (behemoth) AND ATLEAST3 (behemoth)
Plus … Negative News searches may also be saved as LexisNexis® Alerts for automatic update on a regular basis—from monthly up to three times a day for breaking news.
*Fictitious names; used for illustration only
