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Source: JournalistLabs, October 2026.

Findings

• 140 of the 1,696 rows (8.3%) carry a work email in the CSV.
• 655 of the 1,696 (38.6%) name foreign affairs in the job title; the other 1,041 name it in their profile headline.
• The ten outlets with the most rows hold 36.7% of the list, led by BBC (173), Middle East News Agency (77) and World Journal (74).
• Correspondents make up 19.2% of this list, against 4.3% of all 127,602 journalists on file.
• 112 of the 1,696 (6.6%) also appear on the politics list.
• The United States holds 34.6% of the rows and the United Kingdom 19.2%; 93 countries have at least one.
• 394 rows (23.2%) carry a senior title: chief, executive, deputy or senior.

Source: JournalistLabs, October 2026.

Rows 9 to 30 of 1,696

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

Source: JournalistLabs, October 2026

What the 1,696 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 foreign affairs. 655 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 1,772 rows. 76 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. 359 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 foreign affairs journalists are on the list?

1,696 at 399 outlets in 93 countries. By role: editors 680, reporters 510, correspondents 326, anchors and presenters 69.

Does the list include email addresses?

140 of the 1,696 rows (8.3%) have a work email at the outlet's mail domain: 126 confirmed by the mail server, 14 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 586, United Kingdom 326, Egypt 89, India 73, Turkey 61.

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?

76 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 foreign affairs journalists?

BBC (173), Middle East News Agency (77), World Journal (74), U.S. News & World Report (61), TRT World (57), Omaha World-Herald (51).

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