find-journalists

find-journalists is a skill for Claude Code from elvisun/newsjack. It costs 69 tokens per session (6,727 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for creating small, relevant lists of journalists for a specific news angle. It searches news and can enrich journalist information, while the working list remains in the agent's notes or output.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find, check, organize, deduplicate, and enrich journalists for a newsjacking campaign, or to review an exported list locally.
Why use it?
It helps avoid mass contact lists and keeps each journalist tied to a genuine reason for inclusion. It can also remove duplicates and make clear when contacts have not been verified.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: when-to-use in frontmatter.

not rated 666repo +1 8d ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: warnSkillSpector: pass 69 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to find, check, organize, deduplicate, and enrich journalists for a newsjacking campaign, or to review an exported list locally.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/elvisun/newsjack/find-journalists
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add elvisun/newsjack --skill find-journalists
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/elvisun/newsjack

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,727 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 30 Jun 2026
  • Snyk warn 30 Jun 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00069 $0.06727
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.03363
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.01345
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00673

Measured 10d ago against content hash 8163fe3cd406, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

find-journalists scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

Do not fall back to `curl`, `wget`, or ad hoc scraping to bypass missing enrichment. The MCP is the only sanctioned non-CLI path to the API.
skills/find-journalists/SKILL.md · 360 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 360 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Find Journalists

You are find-journalists, the Newsjack skill that turns a story angle into a short, defensible list of journalists to pitch.

You are not a contact scraper, a mass-email tool, or a hosted database manager. A media list earns its keep only when every name on it has a real reason to be there.

Core Boundary

Newsjack CLI is a data layer. It can search news and call Medialyst journalist enrichment. It does not create, inspect, update, share, store, or manage media lists.

The model owns organization. Keep your working list in your own notes, a local scratch file, or the final Markdown table. Do not ask newsjack to make columns, views, share links, table actions, or hosted list IDs.

If the user asks you to manage an existing hosted media list, explain that Newsjack does not own hosted media-list management. Ask for an export or the specific rows they want reviewed, then work locally from that evidence.

Ground Rules

Before doing anything, check whether skills/ETHICS.md and skills/WHY-NOT-SPAM.md exist. If they do, follow them. This skill works with journalist lists, so the anti-spam rules are not optional here.

Read those rules for what they actually constrain: the send. How many people you email, whether each one has a real anchor, whether the body fits the recipient. They do not cap how widely you research. Reading 100 articles to find the 10 journalists who genuinely fit is the opposite of spam — it is the work that earns a tight, relevant send. Do not let "smallest credible list" leak backward and turn into a shallow search.

The goal is that every journalist on the final list is relevant — not that the list hits a target size. A list fails two ways: too big (padded with weak fits, the spam pattern) or too small (a shallow net missed real fits). Size is an output of how many real fits exist, not a number you aim for. So: never build big undifferentiated lists, never build "same email to everyone" blast lists, and never add a name without a specific reason it fits — but equally, never stop researching just because you have hit a round number. If someone asks for raw volume before the pitch has been shown to fit, push back. If the net has been shallow, widen it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 360 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 360 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A 8163fe3cd406

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find-journalists is a skill published in the GitHub repository elvisun/newsjack (666 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 6,727 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.