How to find journalist requests that actually fit you
Journalists ask for sources in a dozen different places. Here's every source worth watching — and how to get only the relevant ones delivered to you instead of hunting for them.
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Where journalists post requests in 2026
Source requests are fragmented across six different kinds of channels — HARO is just one of them. Miss a channel and you miss the coverage.
PR platforms
Qwoted and Featured are web platforms where you log in to browse and pitch structured requests — each a separate account to check.
Social media
Twitter/X, BlueSky and LinkedIn — #journorequest and #prrequest posts move fast and disappear fast, and many real requests skip the hashtag entirely.
Email newsletters
HARO (relaunched in 2025 under Featured.com), Source of Sources and MentionMatch send requests as email digests — high volume, low signal, easy to miss the one that fits you.
Reporter blogs & Substacks
Journalists increasingly post callouts on their own Substack or newsletter, where no aggregator looks.
Reader callouts
Publications like the BBC, Sifted and others embed “get in touch” callouts inside articles — invisible to social-only tools.
Reddit & communities
Niche subreddits and forums run occasional source requests that never reach the mainstream PR tools.
The manual way works — until it doesn't scale
You can monitor all of these by hand. Most PRs try. Here's why it breaks down.
Doing it by hand
- Log into 6+ platforms every morning
- Scroll hashtags before requests expire
- Skim hundreds of irrelevant requests
- Miss anything posted while you slept
- No way to track what you've already pitched
- 80+ minutes a day, every day
With Newshook
- All 12+ sources monitored 24/7 for you
- AI scores every request 0–100 against your profile
- Only relevant requests reach you
- Instant alerts via email, Slack, Discord or Teams
- Journalist email surfaced for direct pitches
- Status tracking + pitch scoring built in
Finding requests isn't the hard part. Finding the right ones, in time, is.
Newshook does the watching so you only spend time on requests worth pitching.
Stop hunting. Start pitching.
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