PRESSBOX FOR JOURNALISTS · FREE
Find better stories, better sources and better opportunities.
Pressbox gives verified journalists a free workspace built around reporting rather than another PR inbox. Find stories matched to your beat, ask companies for sources, trace claims back to source material, build a professional portfolio and discover clearly paid professional work.
YOUR FREE JOURNALIST TOOLKIT
Useful even if you never accept a Pressbox pitch.
Story Radar
See published Pressbox stories matched to the beats and locations you choose, with an explanation of why each story matched. Company spend cannot buy a higher position.
Source Desk
Ask for experts, data, research, case studies or visual assets. Choose whether companies see your verified profile or only that the request came from a verified journalist.
Research Desk
Search Pressbox source material and trace chronology, figures and quoted wording back to the exact release. Pressbox does not pretend issuer claims are independently verified.
Career & portfolio
Choose whether you are open to professional work, publish a portfolio if you want one, and browse paid opportunities with the fee and rights terms visible before you express interest.
There is no paid journalist plan. Core workspace access, Story Radar, Source Desk, Research Desk, portfolio tools, opportunity browsing and privacy controls are free.
PRESSBOX JOURNALIST CHARTER
Useful stories, fewer irrelevant pitches, real control.
Pressbox is designed so journalists are not simply entries in a downloadable database. Verified journalist preferences are part of the targeting and delivery rules.
YOUR CONTACT DETAILS
Pressbox does not expose its media-network email addresses as a bulk customer download.
- Client-facing AI targeting receives professional metadata, not journalist email addresses.
- Paid Distribution & AI Impact Reports show publications and professional roles, not journalist names or email addresses.
- A customer's own independently supplied contacts remain that customer's data; this Charter does not convert them into Pressbox-owned directory records.
RELEVANCE CONTROLS
Your verified profile changes who can reach you through Pressbox.
- Beats and topics: tell Pressbox what you cover.
- Pitch types: describe the announcements and opportunities you find useful.
- Minimum pitch gap: choose at least 7, 14 or 30 days between Pressbox pitches.
- Pause: stop all Pressbox pitches until a date you choose.
- Block categories: exclude Pressbox release categories you do not want.
- Block companies: block exact company names from Pressbox-distributed outreach.
- Global opt-out: a confirmed suppression overrides a later profile that otherwise accepts pitches.
These controls are checked during targeting and again before delivery, so a later preference change overrides an earlier shortlist or paid audience selection.
AI MATCHING
AI matching is optional and your email stays out of the matching model.
A verified journalist can opt in or out of AI-assisted relevance matching. When used, Pressbox supplies eligible professional metadata and permitted recent-work evidence—not the journalist email address. AI relevance is a ranking aid, not a promise that a journalist will reply or cover the story.
EVERY SEND IS RECHECKED
An old shortlist is not permanent permission.
Before consequential outreach, Pressbox rechecks current rights, global/workspace suppression, domain suppression, journalist profile controls, recent-pitch frequency and campaign-specific eligibility. If a control no longer permits the pitch, the recipient is held/suppressed rather than sent.
CORRECTIONS & REMOVAL
Verify, correct, pause or leave.
Email ownership is verified before a journalist profile is activated. You can submit an updated verified profile at any time, or use the separate journalist-preferences process to request suppression, correction or removal.
WHAT PRESSBOX DOES NOT PROMISE
Controls reduce irrelevant outreach; they do not make every pitch useful.
Editorial judgement remains yours. Pressbox does not require coverage, payment, backlinks or favourable treatment in exchange for receiving a release. A journalist response or article is never represented as guaranteed.
Paid professional work is separate from editorial coverage. Pressbox will not pay or reward a journalist for covering a Pressbox client, and a company will not be able to buy higher ranking in a journalist's source responses.