{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Haus Research Briefing","title":"Best Journalist Databases 2026: JournalistLabs Publishes Its Counts and Its Method","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":264,"description":"Best Journalist Databases 2026: JournalistLabs Publishes Its Counts and Its Method\nA 2026 ranking of the journalist and media databases PR teams use to find who covers what. We read each product's own public pages, ranked them on what a buyer can see without a login, and put JournalistLabs first on published counts and a published method.\n\n127,602 journalists at 8,800 outlets, counted September 2026, with the count date on the page\nCount pages per beat, per country, per outlet and per outlet type, plus curated lists per beat\nRows built from job titles on public professional profiles joined to Wikidata, with the method written down\nThe New York Times lists 1,144 editors against 632 reporters; the BBC lists 1,038 editors against 1,957 reporters\nWhere the incumbents stand: a three-step pricing form at Cision, an unread database size in the Prowly FAQ, and two products whose pages we could not fetch at all\nKey topics: best journalist database 2026, media database for PR, how many journalists are there, journalist contact list, find journalists by beat, media list building, newsroom size by outlet, editors per reporter, PR media database comparison.\nJournalistLabs: https://journalistlabs.com/\nJournalists on file, by beat and country: https://journalistlabs.com/journalists/\nOutlets by newsroom size: https://journalistlabs.com/outlets/\nEditors and reporters at the Times and the BBC: https://journalistlabs.com/research/nyt-two-editors-per-reporter-bbc-two-reporters-per-editor/\nMethod: https://journalistlabs.com/method/","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/8ZjGPl32W8OA7c2kadKPpFrlXywsx-ikUvQNYKM2zkQ/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wMzI3/OWUyNzA1NzRhNWM0/ZDZjMWE3M2U1ZDYz/ZGI4My5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}