`search_journalists`

Pack: press-intel · Endpoint: https://gateway.pipeworx.io/press-intel/mcp

Find journalists in the corpus by name, outlet, or beat vertical. Returns their outlet, article count, beat profile and published contacts. Use match_story_to_journalists when you have a story — this is for when you already know who or where you are looking for.

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
`query`	string	no	Name fragment, e.g. “Ambrogi”. Case-insensitive.
`outlet`	string	no	Outlet name or slug fragment, e.g. “Above the Law”.
`vertical`	string	no	Beat vertical, e.g. “legal”. Returns only journalists with a beat row in it, ranked by beat score.
`limit`	number	no	Max journalists (default 25, max 100).

Example call

Arguments

{
  "vertical": "legal",
  "limit": 10
}

curl

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/press-intel/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search_journalists","arguments":{"vertical":"legal","limit":10}}}'

TypeScript (@pipeworx/sdk)

import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const pipeworx = new Pipeworx();

const result = await pipeworx.call('search_journalists', {
  "vertical": "legal",
  "limit": 10
});

More examples

{
  "query": "Ambrogi"
}

Connect

Add this to your MCP client config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "press-intel": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/press-intel/mcp"
    }
  }
}

See Getting Started for client-specific install steps.

search_journalists