Skills and Example Prompts
The News / Blogs Assistant can search and summarize based on the last 3 years of news and blogs data from LexisNexis.
Create Search Query
The first step in using the News / Blogs Assistant is to submit a text query that returns data for use by other skills. You can generate a query based on the parameters shown below.
Parameter | Description |
(Required) Text query | Ask a question using the keywords or phrases you're interested in using AND, OR, NOT operators. Example:
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(Optional) Specify a date range | Set the date range using a starting date and ending date using the format YYYY-MM-DD. |
(Optional) Specify source quality | Set the news source quality, such as DEFAULT, TOP_TIER, or ALL. For the full list, see News Source Quality Ranking. |
(Optional) Specify content category | Set the news content categories, such as NATIONAL, LOCAL, TRADE. For a full list, see News Content Categories. |
Example Prompt
"electric vehicles AND Tesla NOT subsidies from 2023-01-01 to 2023-12-31 from TOP_TIER sources"
📝 NOTE: You can specify multiple skills in a search query. For example, "summarize electric vehicles AND Tesla NOT subsidies and get metrics for the last 6 months and display in a monthly timeline chart."
Get Metrics
Retrieve the article count, story count, and Uniqueness score for a query.
Example Prompts
"Get all the metrics for last day."
Get Summary
Retrieve a summary of how or what news or blogs are saying about a search query. This generates a summary of narratives and themes being discussed in the posts matching the search query.
Example Prompt
"summarize boeing incidents from 2024-01-01 to 2024-05-01"
Get Timeline
Display a timeline for article and story count for a search query.
Example Prompt
"Get a timeline for these metrics on a weekly interval and put it in a table."
