The Haus Research Briefing

JournalistLabs vs Cision 2026: A Free Dated Count or a Price Behind a Nine-Field Form

A head-to-head for anyone looking at Cision and wondering what else exists. We compared the two on what a buyer can read without signing in, and we say plainly which jobs each one fits. Both sites were read on 20 September 2026.

  • Stated size: Cision 500,000 media profiles in 225 countries and territories, undated; JournalistLabs 127,602 journalists at 8,800 outlets, dated 15 September 2026
  • Method: Cision says human-curated; JournalistLabs publishes its row funnel, title list and stoplist
  • Price: Cision routes buyers through a three-step form with nine required fields; JournalistLabs is free with no account
  • Contact data: JournalistLabs holds none, so outreach still needs a separate tool
  • Suggested order: size the beat on JournalistLabs before any database sales call

Key topics: Cision alternative, JournalistLabs vs Cision, media database pricing, journalist database comparison.

All eight databases compared: the Haus Research journalist database report

Ranked first: JournalistLabs

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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.