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Thanks for making this service and sharing on HN. Is it possible to provide more contact info for the relevant journalists? I usually rely on Google News alerts

Thanks for making this service and sharing on HN. Is it possible to provide more contact info for the relevant journalists? I usually rely on Google News alerts to find new & relevant articles for my investment / finance startup. What gets me though is when I find a good article, the author's contact information is usually nowhere to be found so it makes it pretty difficult to do PR.

dtran 9y ago
Hey Amar, Thanks for checking out our project! What alerts do you have set up in Google News Alerts? Re: providing contact info— that's definitely one logical next step. We left it out of this hack week project. Journalists already get hundreds of pitches a day, so we're trying to experiment with something new and different in addition to the usual pitch cycles. We're thinking of letting journalists know that you're following them and reading their articles, and make it so they can follow your company as well to receive updates from you, or ask you for quotes/opinions on topics that you're an expert on. This already happens to an extent, but we can make all this much more efficient by only routing their relevant articles to you, and only showing your relevant quotes/updates.
- hbcondo714 9y ago
  One Google News alert I use is sec filings as that is what my startup offers so I would want to know which journalists are reading sec filings and incorporating sec filing content into their articles. I would then want to contact them to suggest using my startup for sec fillings but your approach makes sense too. Thank you for explaining.