About News

The News content object allows you to retrieve Headlines and Story data stored on the Delivery Platform (formerly Refinitiv Data Platform).
Several news types can be retrieved using different definitions contained in the LSEG.Data.Content.News namespace.
A short description for each is provided below. Clicking on the bolded definition names will lead to details page for each.

<strong>Headlines</strong>

We can retrieve headline data using the Headline.Definition()

<strong>TopNews</strong>

We can retrieve headline data using the Headline.Definition()

<strong>News Stories</strong>

News stories with their headline and content can be retrieved using the Story.Definition(storyID)

<strong>Online Reports</strong>

Online reports listing can be retrieved using the OnlineReportsListings.Definition()

The definition GetData() will retrieve a list of listings containg report IDs and other details

We can use a report ID to retrieve its detials using an OnlineReport.Definition(reportID)

When retrieving the details we can also choose to retrieve it's full content or truncated data.

<strong>Analyze</strong>

News data can also be retrieved as a tree structure using the Analyze.Definition(query)

This definition breaks down a user query string into news related entities, then aggregates them into a boolean filtering tree.

<strong>Machine Readable News</strong>

This definition is responsible for requesting, packaging and presenting Machine Readable News (MRN) as headlines and stories.

It will perform all the heavy lifting of breaking down the MRN compressed news segments and packaging them up in simple,application-ready objects.