Find the right journalist, by beat.

As of October 11, 2026, 45,244 journalist/reporter records have indexed coverage across 232 of 361 supported outlets, one record per journalist. The API roster keeps expanding, and existing outlets are periodically re-crawled, so the total and per-outlet counts change over time. Query `GET /datasets/journalists/facets?facet=outlet` for 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. The API supports 361 outlets, and the dataset indexes public staff/author pages as crawls complete; 232 outlets currently have journalist records. Coverage and freshness track each outlet's page structure and update cadence.

Every record's contact_type is exactly one of three values: email (an email address was published on the outlet's page — 2,930 records, 6.5%), social (only a public social handle was found — 13,757 records, 30.4%), or none (neither was listed — 28,557 records, 63.1%). For safer outreach, combine contact_type=email with email_kind=individual_work and role_type or record_type filters; email_kind also exposes shared desks, tips addresses and public personal-provider addresses.

Every field comes from an outlet-published staff, author or byline page. Some public email addresses use personal providers, and the API labels those as individual_personal_public rather than silently calling them work email. Nothing here is scraped from a private account or private database; keep contact_source_url and crawled_at when deciding whether a record is appropriate for outreach.

A deterministic 0–100 prioritization score on every record, with a band: ready (75+, 1,843 records, 4.1%), promising (50–74, 19,834), limited (25–49, 23,485) or no_contact (under 25, 82). It rewards a person record, an editorial role, an individual work email, a public desk or tips address, and title, bio, topic and profile evidence; outreach_readiness_reasons lists the signals behind each score. Only confirmed editorial roles (editor, reporter, contributor, freelancer, columnist) can reach ready: staff and unknown roles are capped at 74 with the reason unconfirmed_editorial_role, and non-editorial roles at 49. Use min_outreach_readiness=75 with sort=readiness_desc for a shortlist. The score ranks records for review — it does not predict a reply.

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