Find the right journalist, by beat.

As of July 21, 2026, 44,346 journalist/reporter records across 227 outlets, one record per journalist. The outlet roster has grown across several build phases since launch and keeps expanding — new outlets and beats get added, and existing outlets get periodically re-crawled — so the total (and every per-outlet count) keeps climbing rather than sitting at a fixed number. Query `GET /datasets/journalists/facets?facet=outlet` for the current live counts rather than trusting a cached figure.

A first-party crawl. There is no unified upstream journalist-search API — credential-free or otherwise — that covers multiple newsrooms, so this dataset is built by directly crawling each of the 227 outlets' own public staff/author listing pages and normalizing what's published there into one schema. That also means coverage and freshness track each outlet's own page structure and update cadence, not a single upstream source.

Every record's contact_type is exactly one of three values: email (a work email address was published on the outlet's page — 3,188 records, 7.2%), social (only a public social handle was found — 13,594 records, 30.7%), or none (neither was listed — 27,564 records, 62.2%). Filter search with contact_type=email to build an email-ready media list, or combine it with vertical and topic to target a specific beat.

No. Every field comes from a journalist's own outlet-published, professional byline or staff-page listing — the same information a reader sees on the outlet's own site. The only exception worth naming explicitly is the small handful of single-author independent newsletters in this dataset (Platformer, Newcomer, Culture Study — the tech_independent / culture_independent verticals), where the author's own listed contact is the outlet's contact, by design. Nothing here is scraped from a personal account, a private database, or an unrelated source — which is also why this differs from paid media-database incumbents like Muck Rack: it publishes only what each outlet already makes public, not an aggregated or purchased contact list.

Yes. Three endpoints: search (filter by q, outlet, vertical, topic, contact_type, with relevance or field sorting), items (one journalist by outlet + slug) and facets (counts by outlet, vertical, topic or contact_type). All three are also exposed as MCP tools — datasets_journalists_search, datasets_journalists_item, datasets_journalists_facets — and billed pay-on-success.