Press Hunt

In plain words

Press Hunt is a database of 500,000 journalists organized by category to help users conduct their own media outreach. The platform enables DIY cold pitching by providing access to journalist information for finding relevant coverage contacts. It's designed for anyone needing to reach journalists across different beats and publications without hiring a publicist or PR agency.

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From the sources

Press Hunt is a categorized database of 500,000 journalists perfect for DIY cold media outreach.

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  Hey guys! Press Hunt (https://presshunt.co) is a categorized database of almost 400k journalists, reporters, and media outlets. Finding the right journalists to pitch your business to––then finding their email address––is a nightmare. The data is spread out all over the internet, down the google rabbit hole, news sites, and twitter accounts. Research can take hundreds of hours on it’s own, not even counting the time it takes to run an effective email campaign. Over the last year we’ve run hundreds of PR campaigns for companies like Instacart and Dos Toros. Our campaigns have been…

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