9 Tools to Find Journalists to Write About You
Looking for an easier way to contact journalists?
If you and your team are in the 'go it alone' mode and aren't hiring a PR firm, these are the smartest ways to help you find and contact journalists who cover your industry.
These nine tools will help save you hours of research time digging through websites and blogs so you can focus on getting your message and request for a story out to the right writer.
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Hey Press
Hey Press is a searchable database of tech journalists. They have collected hundreds of thousands of articles for thousands of writers, saving you precious hours of research. Simply enter a keyword (e.g. bitcoin or Oculus Rift) to see the most relevant journalists for that topic - along with the articles they’ve written and contact details.
JustReachOut
JustReachOut helps you pitch journalists and press daily all on your own without the help of PR firms. Input keywords describing your product. They show you journalists who you should contact, their contact information and the best templates to use to reach out to them. You email them.
Muck Rack
Use Muck Rack to get press for your story, monitor the news and report on the impact of your PR. Journalists can build portfolios and accelerate their careers.
Submit.co
Submit.co has a spreadsheet with all of the relevant information you need to contact tech publications, follow and interact with them on social media, topics they cover, their Alexa ranking and much more.
Right Relevance
Right Relevance helps you discover fresh relevant content to your interests, save interesting articles, follow influential experts, be the first to share soon-to-be viral content and more.
Help A Reporter Out
HARO provides journalists with a robust database of sources for upcoming stories and daily opportunities for sources to secure valuable media coverage.
Anewstip
Anewstip helps you search global media influentials by what they have written or tweeted. More than 200 million articles and 1 billion tweets from 1 million media contacts.
Pressfarm
Pressfarm is a growthhacking tool that helps founders find journalists to write about their startup. Save yourself hours of time search and get 250 journalists' emails and social profiles for just $9.
Contactable.io
Contactable.io uses machine learning to analyze what journalists like to write about and help you build relationships with them. There are 3,000+ publications, 50,000+ journalists and 2 million+ articles analyzed.