Medialyst: new features and launches

Plan credits now expire at each billing renewal

Announced Oct. 24, 2026.

Medialyst plan credits now reset each billing cycle, with unused plan credits expiring at renewal. Unused plan credits held on October 24, 2026 became lifetime credits, and top-ups never expire.

Source: Medialyst changelog.

Newsjack v0.1.21 bundles its full skill and Medialyst MCP reference in the plugin

Available Oct. 22, 2026.

Point release of the MIT-licensed Newsjack agent skills. The plugin now ships the complete skill and a Medialyst MCP reference, with Slack delivery fixes and tighter journalist-contact privacy and press-clip access rules.

Features: AI agents, MCP servers and connectors, Journalist research, Agent skill.

Source: GitHub release (elvisun/newsjack).

In PR software this week: Oct. 20 to 25, 2026.

Pitch Analytics in the REST API and MCP, with reply-type labels

Available Oct. 16, 2026.

Pitch Analytics (opens, clicks, replies) becomes readable through REST and MCP with aggregate, time-series and per-pitch breakdowns, and users can label replies as positive, negative, out of office and so on.

Features: Reporting and measurement, MCP servers and connectors, MCP server.

Source: Medialyst changelog (v1.36.0).

Unlimited active media lists on Starter, Pro and Scale

Announced Oct. 15, 2026.

Medialyst v1.35.0 gives the Starter, Pro and Scale plans unlimited active media lists; the Free plan stays at one active list. The same release changes the free Journalist Finder allowance to three successful email finds.

Features: Media database.

Source: Medialyst changelog.

In PR software this week: Oct. 20 to 25, 2026.

Free public Journalist Finder and one-call journalist lookup (REST and MCP)

Available Oct. 14, 2026.

Medialyst opens a free public Journalist Finder (name suggestions, a full first profile without signup, email unlocks) and adds one lookup_journalist call to REST and MCP that goes from a name to a verified email, running live checks when needed.

Features: MCP servers and connectors.

Source: Medialyst changelog (v1.34.0).

In PR software this week: Oct. 5 to 19, 2026.

Journalist Lookup

Available Oct. 11, 2026.

Searches for a named journalist and researches live profiles for journalists not in the database.

Features: Media database.

Source: Medialyst (changelog).

In PR software this week: Oct. 5 to 19, 2026.

coverage-reel skill: coverage dashboard and highlight reel from real press clips (newsjack)

Available Oct. 10, 2026.

An agent skill that turns a coverage CSV into a source-linked dashboard and a motion-designed reel, with each clip checked by a reviewer agent.

Features: Reporting and measurement, Agent skill.

In the skills library.

Source: GitHub (newsjack CHANGELOG).

Campaign chat improvements

Announced Sept. 23, 2026.

Medialyst shipped campaign chat and pitch-draft improvements, including streamed campaign plan cards (v1.25.1).

Source: Medialyst changelog.

Radar

Available Sept. 22, 2026.

Radar scans the news daily per project and flags pitch-ready opportunities, major stories, and watch-list items.

Features: Trend detection.

Sources: Medialyst Blog, Medialyst changelog (same-day post confirmed on Elvis Sun's X account).

Radar/Projects in public API + MCP

Announced Sept. 21, 2026.

Medialyst integrated Projects and Radar into its public API and MCP tools for external agent access (v1.24.1).

Features: MCP server.

Source: Medialyst changelog.

newsjack v0.1.19

Available Sept. 18, 2026.

newsjack v0.1.19 introduced a Jev engine (TypeSafe AI) for the coarse-relevance pass in its detector pipeline.

Features: Agent skill.

Source: GitHub release v0.1.19.

Jev engine for coarse-relevance filter (newsjack)

Announced Sept. 18, 2026.

Adds an optional engine that runs the detector's coarse-relevance pass through Jev, a typed-decision model, instead of the LLM.

Source: GitHub.

Projects

Available Sept. 17, 2026.

Medialyst shipped project context: organizing campaigns into projects with file uploads and durable memory (v1.24.0).

Source: Medialyst changelog.

Project memory (teach the agent)

Available Sept. 17, 2026.

Per-client project memory and uploaded files the Medialyst Agent reads before building lists and scoring journalists.

Features: AI agents, Media lists built by agents.

Source: Medialyst blog.

newsjack v0.1.17

Announced Sept. 14, 2026.

newsjack v0.1.17 added Slack delivery for completed monitor reports and agent-driven media-list research with incremental results.

Features: Agent skill.

Source: GitHub release v0.1.17.

Slack delivery for completed monitor reports (newsjack)

Available Sept. 14, 2026.

The monitor can post finished reports to a Slack incoming webhook.

Features: Media monitoring.

Source: GitHub (newsjack CHANGELOG).

Agent-driven media list research (newsjack)

Announced Sept. 14, 2026.

CLI exposes Medialyst's async campaign workflow so agents can start a job and read incremental journalist results.

Features: MCP servers and connectors, Agent skill.

Source: GitHub.

Beat Sweep Agents

Available Aug. 20, 2026.

Dedicated research agents, one per story angle, read findings and pull threads until each angle is exhausted.

Features: AI agents.

Sources: Medialyst Blog, Medialyst changelog (corroborated by Medialyst blog).

Angles

Available Aug. 20, 2026.

Breaks a campaign's news into several distinct story angles, each written for the beat reporter, shown for approval before the list runs.

Features: Story ideas and angles.

Source: Medialyst changelog.

Journalist Moves API and MCP tool

Available Aug. 15, 2026.

Polls deduplicated journalist outlet and role changes with source evidence, free of credits, on Scale plans.

Features: Media database, MCP servers and connectors, MCP server.

Source: Medialyst (changelog).

Deep Research Agent

Announced Aug. 13, 2026.

Deep research agent reads the open web, bylines, and social profiles to raise freelance-journalist contact coverage.

Features: Media database.

Source: Medialyst Changelog.

build-ai-visibility-panel skill: evidence-bound prompt panels for AI-answer tracking (newsjack)

Available Aug. 5, 2026.

An agent skill that turns a URL and description into a prompt set for measuring how AI answers mention the brand.

Features: Agent skill.

Source: GitHub (newsjack CHANGELOG).

build-ai-visibility-panel (newsjack)

Announced Aug. 5, 2026.

Turns a public URL and description into an evidence-bound prompt panel for tracking a brand across AI answer systems.

Features: AI-answer tracking, Agent skill.

In the skills library.

Source: GitHub.

ai-visibility-writing (newsjack)

Announced Aug. 5, 2026.

Audits and fact-preservingly revises press releases/articles so AI answer systems can retrieve, quote, and cite them.

Features: AI-answer optimization, Agent skill.

In the skills library.

Source: GitHub.

same-outlet-ranker (newsjack)

Announced Aug. 5, 2026.

Ranks which journalist at one publication to approach first, using fit-check plus comparative outlet signals.

Features: Journalist research, Agent skill.

In the skills library.

Source: GitHub.

buyer-job-intent-analysis (newsjack)

Announced Aug. 5, 2026.

Recovers buyer jobs, struggling moments, and desired progress from evidence to feed an AI-visibility prompt design.

Features: AI-answer tracking, Agent skill.

Source: GitHub.

icp-evidence-analysis (newsjack)

Announced Aug. 5, 2026.

Turns a company/market dossier into testable ICP hypotheses feeding an AI-visibility prompt panel.

Features: AI-answer tracking, Agent skill.

Source: GitHub.

prompt-proximity-architecture (newsjack)

Announced Aug. 5, 2026.

Turns approved ICPs and buyer jobs into a budget-aware prompt coverage blueprint for AI-visibility tracking.

Features: AI-answer tracking, Agent skill.

Source: GitHub.

prompt-set-qa (newsjack)

Announced Aug. 5, 2026.

Gates a generated prompt set for contamination, duplication, and evidence entailment before AI-visibility panel selection.

Features: AI-answer tracking, Agent skill.

Source: GitHub.

realistic-prompt-generation (newsjack)

Announced Aug. 5, 2026.

Generates natural, controlled prompt variants for AI-visibility tracking from a target-blind design brief.

Features: AI-answer tracking, Agent skill.

Source: GitHub.

ai-visibility-panel-design (newsjack)

Announced Aug. 5, 2026.

Selects QA-approved intent cells into a versioned AI-visibility tracking panel with weighting and refresh rules.

Features: AI-answer tracking, Agent skill.

Source: GitHub.

Credit pricing overhaul

Announced Aug. 1, 2026.

Medialyst overhauled pricing to a credit system (1,000-10,000 monthly credits per tier), v1.16.0.

Source: Medialyst changelog.

Source-tracked media lists

Available July 23, 2026.

Medialyst added media-list building with source tracking and a pinned Sources column (v1.14.0).

Source: Medialyst changelog.

Newsjack monitoring (v1.10.0)

Available July 8, 2026. In beta.

Medialyst added newsjack monitoring (closed beta), in its changelog's words: "continuously scans the news for timely story opportunities relevant to your organization"; "Review daily opportunities with color-coded story-size buckets and get suggested pitch angles for each." Digest emails and Slack alerts.

Source: Medialyst changelog, v1.10.0 (2026-07-08).

newsjack v0.1.15

Available June 30, 2026.

newsjack v0.1.15: PR calendar building from Medialyst's live API.

Features: Agent skill.

Source: GitHub release v0.1.15.

pr-calendar skill: six-month PR calendar from Medialyst's live PR calendar API (newsjack)

Available June 30, 2026.

An agent skill that pulls awareness days, seasonal hooks and conferences and plans moments where the brand has standing.

Features: Story ideas and angles, Agent skill.

Source: GitHub (newsjack CHANGELOG).

pr-calendar (newsjack)

Announced June 30, 2026.

Turns Medialyst's live PR calendar feed into a brand-specific, lead-time-aware six-month pitch plan.

Features: Story ideas and angles, Agent skill.

In the skills library.

Source: GitHub.

press-clip skill: branded press-clip PDF from a live article (newsjack)

Available June 24, 2026.

An agent skill that drives a browser to turn an article URL into a clean PDF clip with the outlet's logo.

Features: Reporting and measurement, Agent skill.

In the skills library.

Source: GitHub (newsjack CHANGELOG).

/angle-generator

Announced June 18, 2026.

Newsjack-powered copilot slash command that generates pitch/story angle suggestions in chat.

Features: Chat assistant, Story ideas and angles.

Source: Medialyst Changelog.

/headline-generator

Announced June 18, 2026.

Newsjack-powered copilot slash command that generates headline options in chat.

Features: Chat assistant, Press release and content writing.

Source: Medialyst Changelog.

/fact-check

Announced June 18, 2026.

Newsjack-powered copilot slash command that fact-checks pitch or story claims in chat.

Features: Chat assistant.

Source: Medialyst Changelog.

/journalist-fit-check

Announced June 18, 2026.

Newsjack-powered copilot slash command that checks a journalist's fit for a pitch in chat.

Features: Chat assistant, Journalist research.

Source: Medialyst Changelog.

/newsworthiness-check

Announced June 18, 2026.

Newsjack-powered copilot slash command that assesses a story's newsworthiness in chat.

Features: Chat assistant, Story ideas and angles.

Source: Medialyst Changelog.

/pr-strategist

Announced June 18, 2026.

Newsjack-powered copilot slash command that gives PR strategy guidance in chat.

Features: Chat assistant, Story ideas and angles.

Source: Medialyst Changelog.

headline-generator (newsjack)

Announced June 12, 2026.

Generates news, press-release, and pitch-subject headline candidates from a story's raw facts using ten proven moves.

Features: Press release and content writing, Pitch writing, Agent skill.

In the skills library.

Sources: GitHub, GitHub (newsjack CHANGELOG).

find-journalists (newsjack)

Announced June 9, 2026.

Creates, inspects, enriches, and shares fit-checked media lists for newsjack campaigns via the optional Medialyst server.

Features: Media lists built by agents, Agent skill.

In the skills library.

Source: GitHub.

coverage-tracker (newsjack)

Announced June 8, 2026.

Runs a Google-Alerts-style keyword coverage tracker, using an LLM to dedupe and classify real coverage vs junk.

Features: Media monitoring, Agent skill.

In the skills library.

Source: GitHub.

news-search (newsjack)

Available June 5, 2026.

Searches current news for a topic, company or hook and returns dated, attributed articles from the Medialyst API, with a web-search fallback.

Features: Media monitoring, Agent skill.

In the skills library.

Source: GitHub.

Prompt-based media list creation (MCP)

Announced June 2, 2026.

External AI agents on MCP describe target journalists in plain language; Medialyst plans keywords server-side.

Features: MCP servers and connectors, MCP server.

Source: Medialyst Changelog.

newsjack-triage (newsjack)

Announced June 2, 2026.

Consolidates freshness-gated newsjack signals and routes them by client standing before angle generation.

Features: Trend detection, Agent skill.

Source: GitHub.

pr-strategist (newsjack)

Announced June 2, 2026.

Opinionated startup-PR strategist that sets audience, positioning, news pegs, and drumbeat before tactical PR.

Features: Story ideas and angles, Agent skill.

In the skills library.

Source: GitHub.

newsjack v0.1.0 (first release)

Available June 1, 2026.

First public GitHub release of newsjack, v0.1.0 (MIT): open-source agent skills including newsjack-detector, which in its own words monitors current news and decides 'which are credible newsjacking opportunities for a client', and angle-generator.

Features: Agent skill.

Source: GitHub (newsjack-detector SKILL.md, tag v0.1.0).

newsjack-detector skill: find newsjacking opportunities (newsjack)

Available June 1, 2026.

An agent skill that watches news and reaction signals and decides which are credible newsjacking opportunities for a client.

Features: Trend detection, Agent skill.

Source: GitHub (newsjack release v0.1.0 and its README).

media-list-manager skill (later find-journalists): build fit-checked media lists (newsjack)

Available June 1, 2026.

An agent skill that builds small media lists, optionally through Medialyst, and falls back to a local file.

Features: AI agents, Media lists built by agents, Agent skill.

Source: GitHub (newsjack release v0.1.0 and its README).

newsjack-detector (newsjack)

Available June 1, 2026.

Monitors current news and reaction signals and judges which are credible newsjacking opportunities for a client.

Features: Trend detection, Agent skill.

In the skills library.

Source: GitHub.

story-origin-check (newsjack)

Available June 1, 2026.

Recovers the first public timestamp and canonical major coverage for a signal to catch syndication/rewrite pickups.

Features: Coverage analysis, Agent skill.

In the skills library.

Source: GitHub.

newsworthiness-check (newsjack)

Available June 1, 2026.

Scores whether a news event or a user's pitch idea is actually newsworthy, with anti-inflation and brand-safety rules.

Features: Story ideas and angles, Agent skill.

In the skills library.

Source: GitHub.

meanest-editor (newsjack)

Available June 1, 2026.

Roasts a pitch or press release with the eye of a veteran PR director, honest and specific rather than cruel.

Features: Pitch writing, Press release and content writing, Agent skill.

In the skills library.

Source: GitHub.

angle-generator (newsjack)

Available June 1, 2026.

Turns one company update into 3-7 structurally distinct, journalist-shaped story angles.

Features: Story ideas and angles, Agent skill.

In the skills library.

Sources: GitHub, GitHub (newsjack release v0.1.0 and its README).

media-list-manager (newsjack)

Available June 1, 2026.

Creates, inspects, edits, enriches, and shares fit-checked media lists for newsjack campaigns.

Features: Media lists built by agents, Agent skill.

Source: GitHub.

crisis-holding (newsjack)

Available June 1, 2026.

Drafts crisis holding statements and journalist Q&A posture from confirmed incident facts with a legal-counsel gate.

Features: Press release and content writing, Agent skill.

In the skills library.

Source: GitHub.

fact-check (newsjack)

Available June 1, 2026.

Extracts factual claims from PR copy, verifies each independently, attaches citations, and flags low-certainty claims.

Features: Agent skill.

In the skills library.

Source: GitHub.

journalist-fit-check (newsjack)

Available June 1, 2026.

Gates a pitch against one journalist, returning fit/soft-fit/no-fit/unknown anchored in recent bylines.

Features: Journalist research, Agent skill.

In the skills library.

Source: GitHub.

reactive-comment (newsjack)

Available June 1, 2026.

Triages inbound journalist source queries and drafts a reply only when the user's expertise is a real fit.

Features: Journalist requests, Pitch writing, Agent skill.

In the skills library.

Source: GitHub.

relevance-coarse-filter (newsjack)

Available June 1, 2026.

Cheap, high-recall first-pass filter that removes obvious junk from a detector candidate pool before expensive research.

Features: Trend detection, Agent skill.

Source: GitHub.

voice-extractor (newsjack)

Available June 1, 2026.

Captures a user's real writing voice from prior samples and enforces that fingerprint on newsjack drafts.

Features: Press release and content writing, Agent skill.

In the skills library.

Source: GitHub.

MCP server (News Search results; earliest dated mention)

Available May 26, 2026.

The 2026-05-26 changelog says Medialyst already served an MCP server whose News Search results carry publication data. It is the earliest dated mention found; Medialyst does not publish the date the server first shipped.

Features: MCP servers and connectors, MCP server.

In the skills library.

Source: Medialyst (changelog).

News Search API

Available May 21, 2026.

Adds a paid API endpoint (POST /v1/news/search) that returns news articles for a query.

Features: Media monitoring.

Source: Medialyst (changelog).

newsjack repo created

Available May 19, 2026.

GitHub repo elvisun/newsjack created: 'the open-source skills that turn your agent into a full PR team.'

Features: Agent skill.

Source: GitHub API.

Email open and click tracking with a Pitch Analytics dashboard

Available May 13, 2026.

Tracks opens, clicks and replies on sent pitches and charts them across campaigns.

Features: PR CRM, Reporting and measurement.

Source: Medialyst (changelog).

Agent Mode V2: Medialyst Agent

Available March 31, 2026.

Persistent AI agent attached to the workflow table understands full table state and takes real actions via conversation.

Features: AI agents, Media lists built by agents.

Sources: Medialyst Blog, Medialyst changelog.

Agent Mode

Available March 6, 2026. In beta.

An AI agent reads a client's site, searches today's news, and proposes trending story angles, then builds a media list.

Features: AI agents, Media lists built by agents.

Source: Medialyst Blog.

The Database That Researches Itself

Announced March 2, 2026.

Journalist database enriched live by AI agents pulling from author pages, social profiles, and 10+ data providers.

Features: Media database, Journalist research.

Source: Medialyst Blog.

Public API v1

Available Feb. 4, 2026.

Medialyst launched Public API v1 (v0.1.12) for programmatic journalist discovery.

Source: Medialyst changelog.

Private Beta Launch

Available Jan. 23, 2026. In beta.

Medialyst shipped v0.1.0, its private beta launch.

Source: Medialyst changelog.

AI-powered journalist discovery and matching

Available Jan. 23, 2026. In beta.

Private Beta Launch ships AI-powered journalist discovery and matching, workflow tables, and beat/relevance scoring.

Features: Journalist research.

Source: Medialyst Changelog.

Pitch Roast

Available Jan. 8, 2026.

Free standalone tool at ismypitchshit.com scores pasted PR pitches with real-time AI feedback and suggestions.

Features: Pitch writing.

Source: Medialyst Changelog.

Choose Your AI

Announced Dec. 10, 2025.

Users pick their preferred underlying AI model (Gemini, Claude or GPT) for workflow table processing.

Source: Medialyst Changelog.

AI Formula Generation

Announced Nov. 19, 2025.

Users describe desired spreadsheet functionality in plain English and Medialyst generates the workflow-table formula.

Source: Medialyst Changelog.

AI-powered keyword generation

Announced Sept. 2, 2025.

Campaign Wizard creates media outreach campaigns using AI-generated keywords to find story angles.

Features: Story ideas and angles.

Source: Medialyst Changelog.