Searching Articles and Journalists Through Articles
Propel's article search is a crucial tool for finding relevant journalists to pitch. Specifically when pitching a niche topic or story, "Article Search" can help you find journalists who have already written about that (or a similar) topic.
Here's a video walkthrough of the entire process:
Here's a video walkthrough of the entire process:
- Click on "Discover" in the top navigation bar.
- Click on "Articles".
- Enter relevant information and apply filters:
- Only Show Authors with an Email Address
- Checked: Results only show articles by journalists in our database with email addresses. You can immediately add them to your media lists and pitch to them.
- Unchecked: Results may include articles without author emails. If you attempt to add these to a list, Propel will prompt you to manually enter the author's email address.
- Search by Title or Body Text: Use the "Search by Title" field to locate journalists who have written about a specific topic in article headlines.
- Additional filters: Narrow your results using the following:
- Author name
- Time period
- Domain rank
- Content type
- Location (city, state, country)
- Word count
- Select the journalists you want to add to your media list.
- Select the media list you want to add them to.
Tips
- Keep "Only Show Authors with an Email Address" checked if you're building a media list. Uncheck it if you're using Article Search primarily for research.
- For multi-word terms (e.g., Super Bowl), use quotation marks ("Super Bowl") for more accurate results.
- Use commas to separate multiple keywords in a single search (e.g., restaurant, hotel, inn).
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