We just shipped something we've been wanting to build for a long time. You can now search Google News directly inside PressReacher, and for every article that comes back, we show you the journalist who wrote it.
Not just the byline. Their full profile. Contact details, domain authority badge, the topics they cover, social links. Everything you'd normally spend 20 minutes hunting down, right there next to the headline.
Why this matters
The old way of finding journalists goes something like this. You see an article that fits your pitch perfectly. You note the name. You Google them. You check LinkedIn. You look at the publication's staff page. Maybe you find an email, maybe you don't. Then you do it again for the next article.
It's not hard, it's just slow and annoying. And by the time you've done it for ten articles, the story has moved on.
Google News Search fixes that. Start from the news, get the journalist in the same click.
What each result shows you
When you search for a topic, you get a list of current news articles. Each one has a journalist card attached to it, pulled from the PressReacher database.
On each card you'll see:
- The journalist's name and job title
- Their authority badge (High, Medium, or Low) based on the publication's domain authority and their reach
- The topics they regularly cover, like Politics, Health and Wellness, or Film Industry News
- Twitter/X and website links where we have them
- Their email address, masked until you copy it
Click through to their full profile and you've got everything else, including their pitch history if you've contacted them before, any notes you've left, and the option to add them to a list.
Real results, not a static database
The articles are live Google News results. So when you search for a topic, you're seeing who is writing about it right now, today. Not who covered it two years ago.
Search for something in your space and you get an immediate read on who the active voices are. That's useful when you're doing reactive PR, when a story breaks and you need the right contact fast. It's also useful when you're building a media list from scratch and want to find journalists you haven't come across before.
How to use it
- Go to the Search section in your dashboard
- Select Google News Search
- Type in your topic or keyword
- Browse the results and click any journalist card to open their profile
- Add them to a list or start a pitch from there
What's coming next
This is the first version. We're planning to add saved searches so you can monitor topics over time, alerts when new articles appear for a keyword, and the ability to bulk add matched journalists to a list straight from the results page.
If you've got ideas or you hit something that doesn't work the way you'd expect, drop us a note at [email protected] or use the feedback button in your dashboard.