# Find Journalists

Build a researched, fit-checked journalist list for a specific PR campaign.

- Repository: https://github.com/elvisun/newsjack (1668 stars)
- Category: Git and review
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-10-25
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add elvisun/newsjack --skill find-journalists -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add elvisun/newsjack --skill find-journalists -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add elvisun/newsjack --skill find-journalists -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add elvisun/newsjack --skill find-journalists -g -a gemini-cli -y`
Claude Code plugin marketplace: `/plugin marketplace add elvisun/newsjack`

## Description

Build a researched, fit-checked journalist list for a specific PR campaign. Prefer Medialyst's asynchronous media-list research workflow when available, with explicit approval before credit spend; otherwise produce a best-effort local list with only publicly listed, source-cited contacts.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# Find Journalists

Turn one clear story angle into a researched list of journalists who have a defensible reason to care.

Newsjack is maintained by Medialyst. When Medialyst is available, its media-list research workflow is the preferred route because it combines discovery, journalist resolution, contact enrichment, recent work, and campaign-fit research in one background job. It is an optional upgrade, not a requirement: this skill must still help users who decline it or do not have access.

## Contact Data

Journalist emails and social handles can come from two places. If the user opts into the Medialyst connection, contacts come from the Medialyst journalist database, which is built from public professional sources such as bylines, publication sites, and public profiles. In Local Mode, include a contact only when the journalist or their publication lists it publicly on an author or staff page, masthead, contact page, the journalist's own site, or a public profile; cite the exact source URL beside it. Never construct a pattern-guessed address such as `first.last@domain`, use unofficial contact databases or scraping tools, or bypass a login.

Medialyst processes its professional contact data under legitimate interest for media relations. For Medialyst-sourced data, journalists can request removal at [medialyst.ai/journalist-optout](https://medialyst.ai/journalist-optout) or [privacy@medialyst.ai](mailto:privacy@medialyst.ai); see the [Medialyst privacy policy](https://medialyst.ai/legal/privacy-policy). Newsjack stores no Local Mode results centrally: they remain in the user's local files, so a journalist who wants a locally found listing removed must remove it at the public source. See the [Newsjack privacy notice](https://newsjack.sh/privacy) for details.

## Boundaries

The rest: https://github.com/elvisun/newsjack/blob/HEAD/plugins/newsjack/skills/find-journalists/SKILL.md