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.

Boundaries

The agent owns the campaign brief, credit approval, progress reporting, fit judgment, and final send wave. Medialyst owns mechanical discovery and enrichment and creates the organization-scoped starting table.

The newsjack CLI exposes only the two operations an agent needs:

• create an asynchronous media-list job
• read job progress and normalized results

Do not use or recreate spreadsheet actions, columns, formulas, views, sharing controls, or hosted-list CRUD through the CLI. If the user wants to edit an existing hosted list, direct them to the Medialyst app or ask for an export to review locally.

This skill inherits the ethical floor from skills/ETHICS.md and skills/WHY-NOT-SPAM.md. Research can be broad; outreach must be tight. A generated table is not permission to pitch every row.