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Source: JournalistLabs, October 2026.

Findings

• 170 of the 2,400 rows (7.1%) carry a work email in the CSV.
• The ten outlets with the most rows hold 13.2% of the list, led by The New York Times (47), The Globe and Mail (43) and Bloomberg (35).
• The beats named most: sports (178), business (86), politics (86).
• The United States holds 71.1% of the rows and the United Kingdom 6.4%; 71 countries have at least one.

Source: JournalistLabs, October 2026.

Rows 9 to 30 of 2,400

Emails are masked here and complete in the CSV. Source: JournalistLabs, October 2026.

Source: JournalistLabs, October 2026

What the 2,400 rows hold

Rows in the list. Source: JournalistLabs, October 2026.

How the list was built

The list holds every journalist on file whose job title makes them one of the columnists, at any outlet and in any country.

We started from 2,404 rows. 4 were dropped because the job title names work outside reporting and editing: video, picture and sound editors, photographers and camera crews, assistants, interns, designers, social media and audience staff. 534 titles were cleaned of outlet names, dates and run-on text; the CSV keeps the original in the title_raw column.

A row is listed only when the name, the job title, the outlet and the country are all present. Work emails sit at the outlet's mail domain and were found before the list went on sale; the email_status column says whether the mail server confirmed the address (verified) or it follows the outlet's dominant address pattern on a server that accepts every address (pattern). Where neither applies the cell is blank, and the counts above say how many rows that is. The profiles were collected in July and August 2026. Method.

Questions

How many columnists are on the list?

2,400 at 828 outlets in 71 countries. By role: columnists 2,400.

Does the list include email addresses?

170 of the 2,400 rows (7.1%) have a work email at the outlet's mail domain: 107 confirmed by the mail server, 63 built from the outlet's dominant address pattern where the server accepts every address (marked in the email_status column). The other rows have a blank email cell. Nothing is added after the sale: the file you download is the file described here.

What is in each row?

Name, job title, the job title as the profile reads it (title_raw), outlet, country, role, seniority, beat, work email and email_status (verified or pattern). One CSV file that opens in Excel, Google Sheets or any CRM.

Which countries are covered?

United States 1,707, United Kingdom 153, Canada 123, Australia 57, India 37.

Can I see the list before buying?

The first 30 rows are on this page. A 25-row sample with the full emails comes by email.

Which rows were removed?

4 rows whose job title names work outside reporting and editing: video and picture editors, photographers, camera crews, assistants, interns, designers, social media and audience staff.

How does it compare to Muck Rack or Cision?

Muck Rack, Cision and Meltwater sell annual subscriptions and do not publish prices; Semrush's AI PR Toolkit costs $149 to $499 a month (28 October 2026). This list is $29 once, no account, and the file is yours. Comparison of 10 media databases.

Related lists

• Editors 43,722
• Correspondents 5,176
• Anchors and presenters 8,229
• Journalists at The New York Times 1,847
• Journalists at The Globe and Mail 309
• Journalists at Bloomberg 1,635
• Journalists at Forbes 354
• Journalists at The Wall Street Journal (Dow Jones) 1,375
• Journalists at The Times 428
• Journalists at Los Angeles Times 396
• Journalists at The Guardian 621

Columnists on file, by country and outlet

2,522 of the 127,602 journalists on file are columnists, 2.0% of the file.

Source: JournalistLabs

By country

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By outlet

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Other roles

• 54,548 editors
• 5,463 correspondents
• 8,678 anchors and presenters