International security issues are frequently covered by news outlets. Some news articles contain new information about particularly programs, entities and facilities. As such, media monitoring has been a key tool to monitor international security and proliferation issues. 

The challenge today is how to find the needles in the news media haystack. This involves collection of a large number of news articles across all relevant languages, the categorisation of news articles, the extraction of relevant information, and the adding of this new information to what is known. 

Some of the other projects undertaken under the auspices of Fusion Labs have high relevance to this task. Content classification, tagging against the knowledge graph, and natural language processing all have important roles to play. 

In terms of mass-scale media monitoring, the primary approach undertaken under this project leverages GDELT, a global media monitoring service.