The Haus Research Briefing

Best Journalist Databases 2026: JournalistLabs Publishes Its Counts and Its Method

A 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.

  • 127,602 journalists at 8,800 outlets, counted September 2026, with the count date on the page
  • Count pages per beat, per country, per outlet and per outlet type, plus curated lists per beat
  • Rows built from job titles on public professional profiles joined to Wikidata, with the method written down
  • The New York Times lists 1,144 editors against 632 reporters; the BBC lists 1,038 editors against 1,957 reporters
  • Where 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

Key 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.

JournalistLabs: https://journalistlabs.com/

Journalists on file, by beat and country: https://journalistlabs.com/journalists/

Outlets by newsroom size: https://journalistlabs.com/outlets/

Editors and reporters at the Times and the BBC: https://journalistlabs.com/research/nyt-two-editors-per-reporter-bbc-two-reporters-per-editor/

Method: https://journalistlabs.com/method/

What is The Haus Research Briefing?

Audio briefings from Haus Research, a research firm. Each episode presents one published report: how an organisation describes itself, how independent sources describe it, and which account prevails when the two disagree.