Media List Opens Free Tier: 25 Verified Journalist Contacts, No Card Required
UNITED STATES – August 25, 2026 – Media contact platform Media List has opened a free tier: any team can register and export 25 verified journalist contacts at no cost, with no card required.
The free allocation is a working sample of the company’s full database, 41,373 verified journalists, editors, and broadcast producers across 3,119 U.S. outlets, and is intended to answer the only question that matters before buying any media database: does it cover your beat?
Every exported record carries the same verification as paid contacts. The company re-verifies on an ongoing cycle because, per its own published research, roughly one in three publicly gathered media contacts fails deliverability checks. Records include role and outlet data reflecting the database’s composition of editors, reporters, and producers, and 73 percent carry a direct phone number.
New users can pair the export with Media List’s free outreach research, starting with how to write a media pitch that gets a reply. Registration is at medialist.com.
The free tier is deliberately structured as a test rather than a teaser. Twenty-five contacts is enough to run a real pitch for a real story — a focused outreach wave in one beat — and therefore enough to evaluate the only property of a media database that matters: whether its records in your specific niche are current, correctly roled, and answered. A sample that cannot support an actual campaign would only demonstrate the interface; this one is sized to demonstrate the data.
The company is explicit about what the test should look like. Pick one upcoming announcement, export the twenty-five contacts closest to its beat, and send a properly targeted pitch. Bounces, wrong-role records, or silence across the board are all findings — about this database or any other — obtained before money changed hands. The economics follow from the verification model: because records are re-checked on a rolling cycle, the marginal cost of a small free allocation is low, and a user who verifies quality on twenty-five contacts converts with far more confidence than one persuaded by a contact-count headline.
Registration takes a few minutes and the allocation does not expire on a trial clock, so teams can hold the export until their next real announcement rather than inventing a test story. The offer’s premise is that a database confident in its verification can afford to be judged on a working sample.
About Media List
Media List maintains a verified database of 41,000+ journalists, editors, and broadcast producers across 3,100+ U.S. outlets. New users can export 25 contacts free to test coverage for their niche.
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