Media intelligence for Texas public entities

Know what your community is saying before the board meeting.

FORMA Analytics follows the news, the broadcasts, and the public conversation around your district or agency, then tells you what it means and what to do about it. No software to learn. No feed to decode. Just the read, from people who know Texas.

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The headline is the smallest part of the story.

Clipping services and Google Alerts show you what floated to the surface. Everything that decides your bond election, your tax hearing, or your next board meeting sits underneath.

above the waterline

What everyone sees

Headlines. TV segments. Posts and shares. This is where clipping services stop, and where the real questions start.

01

How people actually feel

Every story, segment, post, and comment scored for sentiment and trended over time, so you see a narrative warming or cooling before it boils.

02

How far it traveled

Viewership, reach, and earned-media value for each mention. A hostile story nobody saw and a friendly story everybody saw call for different responses.

03

Who is driving it

The outlets, reporters, and accounts that actually move your coverage, so you know where to engage, where to watch, and where to save your breath.

04

What it means for you

The read against your calendar: your bond, your budget vote, your election climate. And the move we'd make next, in plain language, before the meeting.

Monitoring tells you a story ran. Vista tells you whether it matters.

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How it works

You don't get a login and a learning curve. You get analysts who run the tools and hand you the answer.

01

Listen

We listen across local and regional TV, radio, newspapers, digital outlets, social platforms, and the comment sections beneath them, in English and Spanish. Every mention, every day.

02

Measure

Every mention gets scored: sentiment, viewership, reach, and earned-media value. We separate real momentum from one-day noise and tell you which stories have legs.

03

Brief

A monthly Vista report built for your cabinet and your board. And when a story breaks, a same-day read from an analyst: what happened, what it means, what to do. A call, not a notification.

Where we listen

Your story doesn't form in one place. We follow it across every channel your community actually uses, including the comment sections most services skip, where people say what they really think.

Broadcast

  • Local TV news
  • Regional TV
  • Radio
  • Public meeting streams

Press

  • Daily newspapers
  • Weeklies & community papers
  • Digital-only outlets
  • Wire & syndicated coverage

Social platforms

  • Facebook
  • X
  • Instagram
  • TikTok
  • YouTube
  • Nextdoor
  • Reddit

Comments & conversation

  • News story comment sections
  • Replies & threads on posts
  • Community groups
  • Forums & message boards

Independent voices

  • Local blogs
  • Newsletters
  • Podcasts

Government & policy

  • Legislative activity
  • Agency rulemaking
  • Agendas & public filings

Every channel, in English and Spanish.

Built for Texas school districts and public agencies

Public entities don't get to pick their news cycles. Bond elections, tax hearings, personnel decisions, and safety incidents all play out in front of the community. We help you see each one clearly, and early enough to matter.

School districts

Your community votes on you every few years, and talks about you every day.

  • Bond and VATRE election climate tracking
  • Coverage and sentiment through budget season
  • Rapid reads during safety or personnel incidents
  • Superintendent and board reputation trends

Cities and counties

Tax rates, budgets, and council votes draw coverage that shapes public trust.

  • Budget and tax-rate coverage tracking
  • Council and commissioners court issue monitoring
  • Legislative session impact briefings
  • Community sentiment on major projects

Utilities and special districts

Rate cases and infrastructure projects live or die on public perception.

  • Rate change and project coverage analysis
  • Service disruption narrative tracking
  • Stakeholder and media sentiment trends
  • Bond election intelligence

Law enforcement

Recruitment, incidents, and accountability coverage move fast and cut deep.

  • Recruitment campaign performance tracking
  • Incident coverage and sentiment monitoring
  • Community trust trend lines
  • Earned-media value reporting

Vista. One report, the whole picture.

Our flagship deliverable is Vista, a monthly interactive intelligence report: every broadcast segment, article, and social mention about your entity, organized into one briefing your cabinet opens in a browser and your board understands in ten minutes.

Reads like a briefing

Every section opens with the takeaway in plain English. Charts support the analysis; they don't replace it.

Links to the evidence

Every claim connects to the underlying story, clip, or post, so your team can verify anything in one click.

Watches the horizon

Vista's policy radar flags legislative and regulatory activity headed your way, before it shows up on an agenda.

Texas is the beat.

FORMA Analytics is built and run in El Paso, with a presence in Austin. We've spent two decades inside Texas public-sector decision-making, so we read your coverage the way your board and your voters do, not the way a national platform does.

Bilingual comes standard. In our markets, half the conversation happens in Spanish, and we follow all of it.

Analyst-run

People, not just software. Your report is assembled and interpreted by an analyst who knows your entity and your county.

Data only

FORMA Analytics is a research and intelligence practice.

Fixed monthly fee

Straightforward terms sized for public budgets. No per-seat pricing, no surprise overages.

Cooperative purchasing

FORMA Analytics is an awarded vendor on the Allied States Cooperative purchasing contract, so Texas school districts and public entities can engage us without running a separate RFP.

See your own coverage the way we see it.

Tell us your district or agency and we'll walk you through a live briefing on your last 30 days of media: what surfaced, what's underneath, and what we'd do next. No deck, no obligation.

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