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Source: JournalistLabs, October 2026.

Findings

• 776 of the 1,532 rows (50.7%) carry a work email in the CSV.
• 1,114 of the 1,532 (72.7%) name investigative in the job title; the other 418 name it in their profile headline.
• The ten outlets with the most rows hold 18.0% of the list, led by BBC (60), The New York Times (59) and The Guardian (25).
• Reporters make up 67.9% of this list, against 36.1% of all 127,602 journalists on file.
• 50 of the 1,532 (3.3%) also appear on the politics list.
• The United States holds 73.8% of the rows and the United Kingdom 9.2%; 64 countries have at least one.
• 265 rows (17.3%) carry a senior title: chief, executive, deputy or senior.

Source: JournalistLabs, October 2026.

Rows 9 to 30 of 1,532

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

Source: JournalistLabs, October 2026

What the 1,532 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 or profile headline names investigative. 1,114 name it in the job title and come first in the file, biggest newsroom first; the beat_in_title column marks them.

We started from 1,545 rows. 13 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. 302 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 investigative journalists are on the list?

1,532 at 621 outlets in 64 countries. By role: reporters 1,040, editors 276, anchors and presenters 109, correspondents 74.

Does the list include email addresses?

776 of the 1,532 rows (50.7%) have a work email at the outlet's mail domain: 689 confirmed by the mail server, 87 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 1,130, United Kingdom 141, Australia 41, Canada 32, India 20.

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?

13 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.

Which outlets have the most investigative journalists?

BBC (60), The New York Times (59), The Guardian (25), Associated Press (23), Bloomberg (21), CNN (21).

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