Press & media · the PR half of the platform
Government affairs and public relations are the same job split in two: what moves in the legislature is what ends up in the press, and the same file needs both. Clarion already reads the registries, the order paper, and the council agendas — and the press release and the coverage about you, in the same workspace. Watch the announcement and who's writing about it, graded against the files you actually work.
Honest scope: media is the publisher's teaser plus a deep link to the official source — never the full article, never a logo we don't have a licence to. Some outlets are behind a paywall flag, and a few sources carry reuse terms; the feed shows the outlets we can read and says so.
Minister tables AI and data-privacy reform package
2hWhat the privacy bill means for Canadian startups
5hInside the lobbying push behind the data rules
8hQuébec annonce un cadre sur l'intelligence artificielle
1dOne file, both halves
Most monitoring stops at the announcement. Clarion treats the announcement and the coverage as one continuous file: the bill, the lobbying behind it, the minister who tabled it — and the newsroom release and the columnists, editorial boards, and beat reporters writing about it. The legislative half and the press half sit in the same workspace, matched to the same topics, so a comms lead and a GR lead are reading off one source of truth.
Coverage pulse
+38%media items vs the previous week
214 items · last 30 days
Outlets driving coverage
What the feed does
A single feed across the government newsrooms and the political press, with the filters a comms team actually reaches for — and a relevance grade on every line.
Newest-first across the federal, provincial, and territorial government newsrooms and the Canadian political-media outlets covering your space. An All / Government / Media switch flips between the official record and what the press is making of it, so you can read the announcement and the reaction without leaving the page.
The same relevance engine that grades bills and lobbying grades the press. Each item that matched one of your topics carries its grade — high, medium, low — and a "My topics" view collapses the firehose to only the coverage that touches your work. No keyword alerts to babysit.
Filter to a single jurisdiction — the picker grows from the data, never offering an empty option — and the province view still admits national outlets so a region is never left with only its government newsroom. Search runs across every headline and teaser, in either language.
Running multiple clients from one workspace? Scope the whole feed to a single client's topics and the press narrows to what touches that account — the same global client filter that scopes the rest of Clarion, applied to coverage.
Coverage pulse
+38%media items vs the previous week
214 items · last 30 days
Outlets driving coverage
The coverage pulse
A compact, deterministic read on the press around your file: the change in media volume this week against last, and the outlets driving coverage over the last thirty days. It's the "where do we pitch, and is the story building?" view a PR lead checks first — volume and sources, computed from the feed.
→Coverage up 38% on the week, with CBC, the Globe, and POLITICO Canada leading the last thirty days — a building story and a contact list in one strip.
No sentiment scores, no AI mood-reading, no byline scraping. The pulse counts items and names the outlets — a signal you can defend, not a number you have to caveat.
Why it matters
When the legislative file and the press file are the same file, the brief writes itself — and nobody is forwarding screenshots between two tools.
The coverage on your file, graded and dated, so you see a story building before it's everywhere — and the outlets to call are already on the strip.
The press around a file is the political weather around it. See the announcement and the coverage next to the bill, the lobbying, and the people — the full picture, not the legislative half.
The release, the coverage, the bill, and the people in one workspace, every line cited to its source — so the comms note and the GR note are built on the same record.
Start free and open the Press feed: government releases and political coverage across the country, graded to your topics, each a deep link to the official source. The GR half is already there in the same workspace.