Find any journalist's email and where they work now.

Type their name and publication into the finder above. You get their work email with its verification date, plus their current outlet and recent articles. To do it by hand, check their author page, masthead and social bios, then verify your guess before sending.

Free, complete media databases are rare. This finder gives you three free lookups, and the first needs no signup. To build a full media list, Medialyst gives you your first list free, no credit card.

Yes. Each device gets three free lookups. Your first lookup needs nothing; from the second, we ask for your work email. After your third, the finder unlocks again 24 hours later. A network-level limit stops abuse without blocking normal office use.

Usually, but adding the publication helps. With only a name, you'll see the likely matches with their outlet and role, so you can pick the right person.

Every email shows when it was last verified and where it came from. When sources disagree, the record says "Contact details under review". When an address is personal, it says "Personal". If we can't verify an address, we say so instead of guessing.

We check their current outlet against their recent bylines and flag a move ("Moved to …", "Formerly at …"). Freelancers show as "Freelance", with the outlets they've written for recently.

Usually for one of five reasons: they moved outlets, they're freelance, the guessed format was wrong, the domain accepts every address so a quick check says "valid" when nobody reads it, or it's a shared inbox like tips@. The finder checks the first three on every lookup.

Use the outlet's tips line or newsroom contact form and name the reporter in the first line, or send a short DM on X or LinkedIn asking where they'd like the pitch. Freelancers usually list contact details on a personal site or newsletter. Only pitch a personal address if they publish it for pitches.

A media database suits teams managing hundreds of contacts a week. A general email finder suits a known company domain. This journalist finder suits one journalist you have in mind, when you want their current email, outlet and recent work before you pitch.

Put the story in the subject line. Keep the body to a few sentences, say why it fits their beat by citing a recent piece of theirs, and skip attachments. Follow up once, a few days later.

Pitch someone who has covered your topic in the last few months, and give them something new: news, data or access. Most pitches fail on fit, not on wording.

Those are paid media databases built for teams that manage large contact lists. This finder is for looking up one journalist quickly and for free. See our comparisons with Muck Rack and Cision.

No. Your searches, your email and your results stay out of URLs, page metadata, shared caches and search indexing.