Build a media list of journalists who cover your topic

Journalists who covered your topic in the last months, found from their articles, with their X profiles, verified emails and the story each one wrote.

Steps

At most, per call

A media list keeps the journalists who actually cover your topic, with the story each one wrote. With Agentik, your AI finds recent coverage with Serper, reads the articles with Firecrawl, finds the journalists’ X profiles through the X API, and finds and verifies their emails with Icypeas.

Step 1: Find recent coverage
Serper searches Google News for articles on your topic from recent months.
- Google News searchSerper · 3 searches$0.03
Step 2: Read the articles
Firecrawl reads fifteen articles for their bylines and angles.
- Scrape a web page to markdownFirecrawl · 15 articles$0.04
Step 3: Find the journalists
The X API returns the journalists’ profiles and bios, and Icypeas finds and verifies their work emails.
Step 4: Write the pitches
Your AI writes a pitch for each journalist that refers to their article.
Your agent does this part, with no tool call.

Cost of the example

At most $0.84one run

3 news searches, 15 articles read, 15 X profiles, 15 emails found and verified.

Give this to your agent

Use my connected Agentik MCP server for this job: media list.

Build a media list for my announcement. First ask me for my announcement in two lines, my topic, my country and the outlets I care about.

Find recent articles on my topic with serper/news. Read 15 of them with firecrawl/scrape to get the byline and the angle. Find the journalists’ X profiles with x/users-by-usernames. Find their emails at their outlets with icypeas/find-emails-batch and verify them with icypeas/verify-emails-batch.

Finish with a media list (journalist, outlet, article, angle, X, verified email) and a pitch for each that refers to their article.

Before running anything, inspect each tool with inspect_tool, ask me for any input you don’t have instead of inventing it, and tell me the total price. Wait for my go. At the end, tell me what Agentik charged.

4 providers, one connection

What you get

A media list with verified emails and pitches.

You provide

Your announcement in two lines
Your topic
Country and outlets you care about

Your agent returns

Journalists who covered your topic recently
The angle of each one’s article
X profiles and verified emails
A pitch per journalist

Media listExample layout

Journalist	Outlet	Story	Email
Reporter A	Tech outlet	Remote work tools	Verified
Reporter B	Business daily	Hybrid offices	Verified
Reporter C	Trade press	HR software	Risky

Placeholders. Your rows come from your run.

Each provider does one part

No single provider covers this job. Your agent calls each one for its part, from one connection.

Good to know

Pitch journalists about their beat; a mass email to the whole list rarely works.
X profile data is billed per profile returned.

When to use something else

For a media database with editorial calendars and distribution, use a PR platform. This playbook builds a short list of journalists who actually cover your topic.

Questions

Should I send the same pitch to everyone?

No. A pitch about each journalist’s beat gets read; a mass email rarely does.

Where do the emails come from?

Icypeas finds them from the journalist’s name and outlet domain, then checks each one.

What does the example cost?

At most $0.84, reserved before each call and settled at the measured usage.

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