Anewstip

Name: Anewstip
Brand: Anewstip
Price: 20099 USD

Find journalists by what they have written, then pitch them from the same screen

Anewstip is a media database and outreach tool that lets you search roughly one million journalist and outlet contacts by the articles they have published rather than by a hand-maintained beat label. Searches can be saved into media lists or turned into email alerts, and a built-in pitch tool sends tracked emails to those lists. It has a permanent free tier that exposes contact details, with paid plans from $200 per month that add pitch volume, list capacity, and alerts.

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Overview

Most media databases are built as directories: a research team writes a profile for each journalist, tags it with beats, and the buyer filters on those tags. Anewstip inverted that. It indexes the output instead of the profile, more than 200 million news articles and (historically) a billion tweets, and lets you search that corpus for a phrase, then hands you the contact details of whoever wrote the matching pieces. Searching for the exact product category you sell tends to surface a more relevant list than searching a beat label someone else assigned, which is the whole argument for the tool.

The product is four surfaces stitched together. Search covers articles, journalist profiles, and outlet profiles, with filters for date, region, language, and where the term appears in the piece. Media lists hold the contacts you keep, up to a per-list ceiling, and refresh contact details automatically as the database updates. Alerts turn a saved search into an email digest of new matching articles, which doubles as competitor and brand monitoring. Pitch sends personalized email to a list or to contacts its recommendation engine picks from your draft, then tracks opens and clicks.

The commercial shape is unusual and worth understanding before you shortlist it. Every plan, including the free one, gives unlimited access to journalist email addresses and phone numbers; what the plans meter is how much you can send, how many lists you can keep, and how many alerts you can run. That is close to the opposite of the industry norm, where contact reveals are the scarce unit. It means a solo founder can do the research half of media relations for nothing and pay only when they want to send at volume.

The company behind it is very small. Anewstip was founded in 2014, has taken no outside funding, is registered around Hong Kong with terms of service governed by California law, and public company trackers list its headcount in the low single digits. That shows in the product: the interface is dated, the marketing site still carries testimonials and a customer count from 2018, the blog and about links in the footer point at pages that no longer resolve, and the Twitter search tab is now labeled deprecated inside the app. The database and the search still work, but a buyer should treat this as a durable small utility rather than a platform with a roadmap.

Best for

Founders, solo PR consultants, and small in-house teams who want to build a targeted journalist list from what reporters actually wrote, and who value unlimited contact reveals over polished software. The free tier makes it a reasonable permanent research companion even for teams that pitch from a different tool.

Not the right fit for

Teams that need a press release distributed to a wire and syndicated onto news sites; Anewstip sends direct email to journalists and does nothing resembling wire distribution.
Buyers who need a modern, actively developed platform; the interface, marketing site, and public content have visibly not been refreshed in years and the company is effectively a one-person operation.
Anyone whose workflow depended on the Twitter and X search, which the product itself now marks as deprecated.
Agencies that need per-client workspaces, approval workflows, and shareable coverage dashboards, which Muck Rack and Prowly build for and this does not.
Organizations with a procurement checklist requiring SOC 2, a signed data processing agreement, or a documented subprocessor list, none of which Anewstip publishes.

How it works

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You start in search. Type the phrase a journalist would have used, a product category, a competitor name, a piece of jargon specific to your niche, and Anewstip returns matching articles with the author attached: name, title, outlet, location, topic tags, and links to reveal email and phone. Advanced filters narrow by publication date, country, language, and whether the term must appear in the headline or anywhere in the body. You can also search journalist profiles and outlet profiles directly when you already know who or where you want.
2
Contacts you want to keep go into a media list. Lists are the unit the rest of the product works against: they cap at 100 contacts on the free plan, 1,000 on Standard, and 5,000 on Professional, and the contact details inside a list are kept current as the underlying database refreshes. Lists can be exported on paid plans, which matters if you intend to run the actual sending from your own email tool.
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Alerts are saved searches with a delivery schedule. Any query you can run, you can monitor, so a brand name, a competitor, a category term, or a specific journalist all become an email digest when new matching articles appear. The free plan allows two alerts, Standard twenty, and Professional unlimited, which is the practical reason most monitoring-led buyers move up a tier.
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Pitch is the send layer. You write the pitch or paste a press release, either target a media list you built or let the recommendation engine propose journalists based on the content of the draft, approve the recipients, and send. Delivery is metered in pitch points, one point per email to one contact, and opens and clicks are tracked per recipient. Points come with the plan (1,000 a month on Standard, 5,000 on Professional) and can be topped up as a one-time purchase that does not expire.

Feature breakdown

24 features in 4 modules

Media search

The core of the product: find the writer by finding the writing.

News article search: Query more than 200 million indexed articles by phrase and get the byline, outlet, and contact route attached to every result, so a search for your exact category returns the people already covering it.
Journalist profile search: Search over 800,000 journalist profiles directly by name, title, outlet, topic, country, or language when you already know the target and just need the record.
Outlet profile search: More than 200,000 media outlet profiles searchable by name, topic, country, and language, useful for building a publication-first list before drilling into individual staff.
Advanced query filters: Restrict by publication date with month-level granularity, by region and language, by author, and by whether the search term must appear in the headline or anywhere in the article body.
Twitter and X archive search: The original signature feature, an index of roughly a billion tweets back to 2006 filtered by influence score and topic; the app now labels this tab deprecated, so treat it as legacy rather than live.
Public profile pages: Journalist and outlet records are published as crawlable pages showing title, employer, and topics, with contact details gated behind a login, which is why Anewstip results often appear in general web search.

Media lists

Where a search becomes a working target list that stays current.

List building from search: Select results on any search page and add them to a named list in one action, including bulk select across a full page of results.
Automatic contact refresh: Contacts inside a list are updated as the underlying database changes, so a list built six months ago does not silently rot the way an exported spreadsheet does.
AutoList rules: A saved search can be monitored continuously and matching journalists added to a list automatically, which keeps a beat list growing without manual sweeps.
Tiered list capacity: Two lists of 100 contacts on the free plan, twenty lists of 1,000 on Standard, unlimited lists of 5,000 on Professional; the per-list ceiling, not the contact reveal, is the real constraint.
List export: Paid plans export a list for use in your own email or CRM tooling, which is the standard path for teams that research here and send elsewhere.
Public lists: A directory of shared, publicly viewable media lists is browsable on the site, useful as a starting point when you are new to a beat.

Pitch

Tracked outreach to journalists, metered in pitch points.

Personalized pitch sending: Compose a pitch or paste a press release and send it to a media list, with per-recipient personalization rather than a single blind blast.
AI recipient recommendation: Paste the draft and the system proposes journalists most likely to care based on their article and tweet history, then waits for you to approve the list before anything sends.
Open and click tracking: Per-recipient opens and clicks reported in real time, which is the only reliable signal you get when journalists do not reply.
Pitch point metering: One point equals one email to one contact; plans include 1,000 or 5,000 points a month, and unused capacity does not roll over on the monthly allowance.
Pitch point top-ups: One-time packages that never expire, priced from $59 for 500 points up to $699 for 10,000 for paid subscribers, with higher prices for free-plan users.
Free-plan send lockout: The free plan includes zero pitches per month, so research is free but sending through Anewstip requires either a subscription or a point purchase.

Alerts and reporting

Monitoring, coverage reporting, and the administrative edges.

Keyword alerts: Any search becomes an email alert on new matching articles, covering your brand, your competitors, or a category you want to track.
Alert quotas by plan: Two alerts free, twenty on Standard, unlimited on Professional and Partners, which is usually what pushes a monitoring-led buyer up a tier rather than send volume.
ClipCoverage reporting: A separate Anewstip-built Google Slides add-on that turns a list of coverage URLs into a report with screenshots and share metrics; it requires its own account and is not bundled with an Anewstip subscription.
API access: Most database and product functionality is exposed via API, but only on the custom-priced Partners tier, so it is out of reach for self-serve buyers.
White-label and reseller programs: The company openly sells white-label builds and reseller arrangements, which is how its data reaches other PR products in the market.
PR consultation: Partners-tier customers can have an Anewstip PR professional help draft releases and identify targets, effectively a service layer rather than software.

Use cases

4 documented

Bootstrapped SaaS founder announcing a launch with no PR budget

There is no money for a wire release or an agency retainer, and the founder does not know which reporters cover their exact niche as opposed to software generally.

Free-plan article searches on three niche phrases produce a list of about forty journalists who have written on the topic in the past year, with email addresses visible at no cost; the founder exports nothing, buys a 500-point package for $79, and sends the launch pitch from inside the tool with open tracking.

Solo PR consultant serving early-stage clients

Muck Rack and Cision quotes start in the five figures a year, which cannot be absorbed across three small retainers.

The $99 early-stage plan (up to one year, for solo practitioners and companies under $1M in funding) covers ten media lists and 500 pitch points a month, enough to run targeted outreach for all three clients while keeping the database line item under a tenth of the alternatives.

In-house marketer at a 15-person company doing competitor monitoring

Leadership wants to know within a day when a competitor is written about, and the marketer also needs to know which reporter wrote it so a counter-pitch can go out.

Alerts on competitor names and two category terms deliver daily digests, and because every alert result carries the author's contact route, the monitoring feed doubles as a continuously refreshed pitch list rather than a separate research task.

Agency researcher building a beat list for a new client

The client sells into a technical vertical where standard beat tags (technology, business) return hundreds of irrelevant contacts.

Searching the vertical's own vocabulary against the article index returns a tighter set of genuinely relevant writers, an AutoList rule keeps the list growing as new coverage appears, and the list is exported into the agency's existing sending stack.

Pricing

from Free; paid plans from $200 per month (Standard), with a $99 per month early-stage plan for eligible applicants

Subscription with four tiers, metered on pitch volume, number of media lists, contacts per list, and number of alerts. Access to journalist email addresses and phone numbers is unlimited on every tier including the free plan, which is unusual for this category. Pitch capacity can be topped up with one-time, non-expiring point packages. Standard bills monthly or annually; Professional is annual only.

Plan	Price	Includes
Free	$0 per month	1 user with unlimited access to media contact emails and phone numbers 2 media lists, 100 contacts per list, 2 alerts 0 pitches per month; sending requires a paid point package Genuinely usable as a research tool, since the contact data is not the thing being withheld. What you cannot do is send.
Standard	$200 per month, billed monthly	1 user, 1,000 pitches per month 20 media lists, 1,000 contacts per list, 20 alerts Media list export and month-to-month cancellation The only tier that can be paid month to month, which makes it the sane way to test a campaign before committing to a year.
Professional	$400 per month, billed annually	Up to 5 users, 5,000 pitches per month Unlimited media lists, 5,000 contacts per list, unlimited alerts Annual commitment required; roughly 20 percent below the monthly rate
Partners	Custom quoted	Unlimited users and unlimited pitches API access to essentially all data and features PR consultation from an Anewstip practitioner Also the tier under which white-label builds and reseller arrangements are sold.

Add-ons

500 pitch points ($59 with a paid subscription, $79 for free-plan users): One point sends one email to one contact. Packages never expire.
1,000 pitch points ($99 with a paid subscription, $129 for free-plan users)
2,000 pitch points ($179 with a paid subscription, $229 for free-plan users)
5,000 pitch points ($399 with a paid subscription, $519 for free-plan users)
10,000 pitch points ($699 with a paid subscription, $909 for free-plan users)
Early-stage plan ($99 per month for up to one year): By application only: under $1M raised, five employees or fewer, not currently a paying customer. Includes 10 media lists and 500 pitch points a month.

Billing notes

Contact reveals are unlimited on every tier including free, so the pricing axis is sending and organizing rather than data access; this is the single most important thing to understand about the plan structure.
The 7-day trial bills automatically when it ends, so it must be cancelled in-app before the deadline to avoid a $200 charge.
Professional cannot be paid monthly by policy; the company states it requires an annual commitment on the reasoning that year-long users get better results.
Free-plan users pay a premium of roughly 30 percent on pitch point packages compared with subscribers, which narrows the gap between buying points and buying Standard.
Plan changes are not self-serve; the pricing FAQ instructs customers to email support to move between plans.
Payment is by card through Stripe or PayPal, with wire transfer and cryptocurrency available on request. Nonprofit discounts are handled case by case through sales.
The $99 early-stage plan is capped at one year, so budget for the step up to $200 per month at renewal.

Value assessment: Judged purely on capability per dollar for research, Anewstip is one of the best offers in the category, because the free tier does not withhold the thing every competitor charges for. A founder can identify and reach the right forty journalists for the price of a single point package. The judgment gets harder at $200 per month, where Standard buys one user, 1,000 sends, and twenty lists against competitors that charge two to five times as much but ship modern software, coverage reporting, CRM-grade relationship history, and support you can rely on. The honest framing is that you are buying a database and a search engine at a fair price, with dated tooling wrapped around it, from a company small enough that continuity is a real consideration.

Strengths & limitations

Strengths

Searching by what journalists actually published beats filtering by assigned beat tags for niche or technical topics, and this is the tool built around that idea.
Unlimited email and phone reveals on every tier, including free, removes the per-credit anxiety that shapes how teams use most media databases.
The free plan is usable indefinitely for research, which makes it a low-risk permanent addition to a stack even if you pitch from elsewhere.
One saved query serves three jobs: a list, an alert, and an AutoList rule that keeps building the list without supervision.
Standard can be paid month to month and cancelled at any time, unusual in a category dominated by annual contracts.
Pitch point top-ups never expire, so occasional campaigners can pay for exactly what they send instead of carrying a subscription between launches.
The $99 early-stage plan is a real, published discount for solo consultants and pre-seed companies rather than an informal negotiation.

Limitations

The Twitter and X search, historically the product's defining feature, is labeled deprecated inside the app; if that is why you are looking at Anewstip, it is no longer the reason to buy.
The company appears to be a one-to-few-person operation with no outside funding since its 2014 founding, which is a genuine continuity risk for a system of record you would keep for years.
The public site is visibly stale: the customer count is footnoted as of August 2018, testimonials date to the Twitter era, a Google Plus link survives in the markup, and the footer's about, blog, and contact links resolve to 404 pages.
The terms of service carry a December 2014 effective date and the privacy policy is generic template text with no named GDPR lawful basis, no data processing agreement, and no subprocessor list, which will stall enterprise or EU procurement.
No published SOC 2, ISO 27001, or comparable security attestation, and no SSO on any tier.
Article index recency is uneven: public searches run in August 2026 for an active topic returned results clustered in 2025, so verify freshness on your own beat before relying on alerts for same-day monitoring.
Reviewers consistently report some outdated journalist records, unsurprising in a category with 20 to 30 percent annual churn but worth spot-checking before a large send.
Coverage reporting is a separate product (ClipCoverage) with a separate account and separate billing, not part of the subscription.
API access is gated to the custom-priced Partners tier, so there is no self-serve programmatic path.
Standard is a single seat at $200 per month; a two-person team is pushed to the $400 annual-only Professional tier.

Head-to-head comparisons

6 alternatives

Anewstip vs EIN Presswire

from $149 for a single press release (Basic)

Different jobs that get confused because both are cheap. EIN Presswire distributes a press release to a wire network and syndicated sites for around $100 or less per release, producing published pickup with no relationship attached. Anewstip finds specific journalists and emails them individually. Announcement-shaped news with an SEO goal suits the wire; a story that needs a reporter to actually write it needs the pitch. Many small teams sensibly do both, wiring the release and pitching the twenty people who might cover it properly.

Full Anewstip vs EIN Presswire comparison

Anewstip vs PRWeb

from $120 per release (Basic)

PRWeb is Cision's self-serve wire product, priced per release in the low hundreds and sold on distribution reach and a recognizable brand. Anewstip is priced per month and sold on targeting. PRWeb gives you guaranteed placement on syndication partners and a shareable link; Anewstip gives you names, addresses, and open rates. If your board wants to see the release on news sites, use PRWeb. If you want a journalist to write an original piece, PRWeb will not get you there and Anewstip might.

Full Anewstip vs PRWeb comparison

Anewstip vs Muck Rack

from Quote only; reported entry points around $5,000 per year for a single-seat Starter license, with most teams reported near $10,000 per year

The straight database comparison, and it is not close on software quality. Muck Rack has current journalist profiles maintained with journalist participation, real relationship history, coverage reporting, team workflows, and support, at annual pricing that typically lands in the five figures with no free tier and no published price. Anewstip has a comparable-scale contact database, unlimited reveals, a $200 monthly option, and a free plan. Small teams that cannot justify Muck Rack's floor buy Anewstip and accept the dated interface; teams with a PR budget and a procurement process buy Muck Rack.

Full Anewstip vs Muck Rack comparison

Anewstip vs Qwoted

from Free (Basic, 2 pitches per month); Pro listed at $149 per month

Opposite directions of travel. Qwoted is a marketplace where journalists post what they are working on and sources respond, so the reporter has already declared interest. Anewstip is cold outbound against an article index, where you decide who to approach. Qwoted has better odds per interaction but only covers the stories journalists happen to be sourcing; Anewstip covers any topic you can name a phrase for. Response-rate-sensitive teams run Qwoted first and use Anewstip for the stories nobody has asked about yet.

Full Anewstip vs Qwoted comparison

Anewstip vs Hunter

from 0 euros (Free, 50 credits per month), then 49 euros per month (Starter)

Hunter finds work email addresses at any company from a domain and a name, including at publications, and costs a fraction of a media database. What it cannot do is tell you which journalist to contact: there is no article index, no beat data, and no journalist-specific records. If you already have a list of reporters and need addresses, Hunter is cheaper. If the hard part is deciding who to pitch, Hunter does not help and Anewstip does.

Full Anewstip vs Hunter comparison

Anewstip vs SparkToro

from $0 (Free), then $50 per month (Personal)

Complementary research tools that answer different questions. SparkToro tells you which publications, podcasts, and accounts a defined audience already pays attention to, which is how you choose targets strategically. Anewstip tells you which individual reporters at those outlets have written about your topic and how to reach them. A sensible sequence is SparkToro to pick the twelve outlets that matter to your buyers, then Anewstip to find the right byline at each one.

Full Anewstip vs SparkToro comparison

Implementation & onboarding

Setup time: Minutes. Registration is self-serve, there is nothing to install or connect, and the first useful search happens on the free plan before any payment. Building a first media list of a few dozen contacts is an afternoon of query iteration rather than a project.
Learning curve: Low mechanically, higher editorially. The search syntax and filters are straightforward; the skill that decides results is choosing query phrases specific enough to surface genuinely relevant writers and disciplined enough not to fill a list with anyone who mentioned your category in passing.
Onboarding: Entirely self-serve: a getting-started PDF guide, video demos, and a Zendesk knowledge base. There is no assigned onboarding on self-serve tiers, and the guided help that exists is bundled as PR consultation only on the custom Partners tier.
Migration notes: Little to migrate in and a clean path out. Media lists export on paid plans, so a contact list can be carried to another tool or into a CRM. What does not transfer is pitch history, open and click data, and alert configurations, so archive any reporting you need before cancelling. Given the size of the company, keeping periodic list exports outside the product is a reasonable precaution rather than paranoia.

Platform, API & security

Platforms: Web applicationClipCoverage Google Slides add-on (separate product and account)
API: Documented as covering essentially all data and features, but sold only on the custom-priced Partners tier alongside white-label and reseller arrangements. There is no self-serve API key, and no published rate limits or reference documentation on the public site.
Compliance: No published SOC 2, ISO 27001, or equivalent attestationCard payments handled by Stripe, so card data is not stored on Anewstip serversPrivacy policy includes a section addressed to journalists and other indexed individuals
Data residency: Not published. Company records place the business around Hong Kong while the terms of service specify California law and San Francisco jurisdiction; no data residency options or hosting region is disclosed.
SSO: Not offered on any tier.
Security notes: The terms of service carry a December 2014 effective date and the privacy policy is boilerplate template text with no named GDPR lawful basis for processing journalist data, no data processing agreement, and no subprocessor list. Buyers with a security review should expect to receive nothing standard and should weigh that against the price.

Support & resources

Channels: Email support at support@anewstip.comZendesk knowledge baseContact form for sales, partnerships, and plan changes
Documentation: A getting-started PDF, video demos, and a Zendesk help center. Coverage is adequate for the core workflow and thin everywhere else, with no API reference published and no changelog.
Community: None to speak of. There is no forum, no active blog (the footer blog link 404s), and the company's own social presence has been largely dormant, so third-party reviews and comparison posts are the main outside signal.

Company

Founded: 2014
Headquarters: Hong Kong (terms of service governed by California law, San Francisco jurisdiction)
Ownership: Independent, founder-operated
Employees: 1 to a handful (company trackers listed a single employee in 2026)
Funding: No disclosed outside funding; bootstrapped since 2014.

Timeline

2014Founded and launched as a way to find journalists by what they tweet, with a tweet index reaching back to 2006 and terms of service dated December 2014.
2015 to 2017Expands from a search engine into a workflow: media lists, tracked pitching, and a news article index that becomes the primary search surface alongside the original tweet archive.
2018Publishes a customer count of more than 16,000 businesses, a figure the marketing site still carries today with its August 2018 footnote.
2019 to 2022Ships ClipCoverage as a separate Google Slides add-on for coverage reports, introduces the $99 early-stage plan, and builds white-label and reseller channels including JOINT.PRESS.
2023Twitter closes off free and low-cost API access across the industry; Anewstip's tweet index stops being the product's live centre of gravity.
2026The Twitter search tab is labeled deprecated in-app, article search and alerts remain the working product, and the company continues operating as a bootstrapped micro-team with a database of roughly one million contacts.

Integrations

Stripe (payments)
PayPal (payments)
Google Slides (via ClipCoverage)
Zendesk (support portal)
CSV export to CRM and email tools
Partner API (Partners tier only)
White-label and reseller channels including JOINT.PRESS

Frequently asked questions

12 questions

What is Anewstip used for?

Finding journalists to pitch. You search an index of more than 200 million news articles for a phrase relevant to your story, and Anewstip returns the reporters who wrote the matching pieces along with their email addresses and phone numbers. You can save those contacts into media lists, set alerts on new matching coverage, and send tracked pitch emails from inside the tool.

Is Anewstip free?

There is a permanent free plan, and it is unusually generous in one specific way: it gives unlimited access to journalist email addresses and phone numbers, which most competitors meter as credits. What the free plan does not include is sending. You get 2 media lists of up to 100 contacts, 2 alerts, and zero pitches per month, so the research is free and the outreach is what you pay for.

How much does Anewstip cost?

Standard is $200 per month for one user, 1,000 pitches, 20 lists of 1,000 contacts, and 20 alerts, and can be paid month to month. Professional is $400 per month billed annually for up to 5 users, 5,000 pitches, unlimited lists of up to 5,000 contacts, and unlimited alerts. Partners is custom priced and adds API access and PR consultation. Eligible solo consultants and early-stage companies can apply for a $99 per month plan for up to a year.

Does Anewstip still search Twitter?

Not meaningfully. Searching journalists by what they tweeted was the original premise of the product, but the app now labels that tab deprecated, which follows the industry-wide loss of affordable Twitter and X data access after 2023. The working product today is article search, journalist and outlet profiles, media lists, alerts, and pitching. If tweet search is your reason for evaluating it, look elsewhere.

How many media contacts does Anewstip have?

The company states roughly one million journalist and media contacts, including more than 800,000 individual journalist profiles and more than 200,000 outlet profiles, with most records carrying email and phone details. That is comparable in scale to the large commercial databases, though records are assembled by automated indexing plus a research team rather than by journalists maintaining their own profiles.

Anewstip vs Muck Rack: which should a small business choose?

Muck Rack is the better software by a wide margin, with journalist-maintained profiles, relationship history, coverage reporting, and team workflows, but it is sold on annual contracts that typically start in the five figures with no free tier and no published pricing. Anewstip gives a comparable-scale database with unlimited contact reveals for $200 a month or nothing at all. If the budget exists, Muck Rack. If it does not, Anewstip is the realistic option rather than a compromise nobody would choose.

Is Anewstip a press release distribution service?

No. It sends individually addressed emails to journalists you select; it does not push a release onto a newswire or syndicate it to hundreds of news sites. If you want published pickup and the SEO footprint that comes with it, that is a wire service such as EIN Presswire or PRWeb, and the two approaches are often used together for the same announcement.

How does pitch point pricing work?

One pitch point sends one email to one contact. Standard includes 1,000 points a month and Professional 5,000. If you need more, or you are on the free plan, you can buy one-time packages that never expire: 500 points for $59 with a paid subscription or $79 without, scaling to 10,000 points for $699 or $909. Because free-plan users pay roughly 30 percent more per point, heavy senders usually find a subscription cheaper.

Is Anewstip's journalist data accurate?

Adequate but not immaculate, and reviewers regularly note some outdated records. That is normal for the category, where newsroom churn runs high, but the practical implication is real: spot-check a sample of any list before a large send, and prefer contacts whose most recent indexed article is recent. Because reveals are unlimited, verifying costs you nothing but time.

Is Anewstip GDPR compliant?

It publishes a privacy policy with a section addressed to journalists and other indexed individuals, but the policy is generic template text with no named lawful basis for processing, no data processing agreement offered, and no subprocessor list. Nor is there a SOC 2 report or SSO. If you process EU journalist data under a formal compliance program, expect this to be the point where a procurement review stops.

Who owns Anewstip and is the company stable?

It is independent and founder-operated, launched in 2014 with no disclosed outside funding, and company trackers listed it at a single employee in 2026. It has been running continuously for over a decade, which counts for something, but the marketing site carries a customer figure footnoted as of 2018 and several footer links 404, so treat it as a durable small utility rather than a growing platform. Export your lists periodically.

Can I cancel Anewstip monthly?

Standard can be paid month to month and cancelled at any time. Professional is annual only by company policy. The 7-day trial on both plans converts to a paid subscription automatically at the end, so cancel inside the app before it expires if you are only testing. Plan changes are not self-serve and require emailing support.

Editorial verdict

Anewstip is the cheapest credible way to answer the question that actually matters in media relations: which specific journalists have already written about the thing I am announcing, and how do I reach them. Searching published articles instead of assigned beat tags produces better lists in niche categories, and giving away unlimited email and phone reveals on a free plan is a genuinely different commercial posture from the rest of the category. Against that, the software is dated, the marketing site has visibly not been touched in years, the tweet search that made the product famous is now marked deprecated, compliance documentation is effectively absent, and the company appears to be one person. Buy it as a research utility, on Standard's month-to-month terms or the free plan, keep exports of anything you would miss, and do not expect it to be the system of record a growing PR function will need in three years.

Written by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Awards, when shown, are judged against the published criteria in our methodology.