Featured Workflows
Journalist Requests Workflow
Reporters ask for sources around the clock — on HARO, Connectively, Substack, and X. This workflow watches all of them, matches each request against your beats, and delivers the ones worth answering to Slack or email, with deadlines attached.
Featured owns and operates HARO and Connectively · An expert connects with a publisher every 6 seconds
Ways PR pros run Journalist Requests
HARO, Connectively, Substack, and X requests, matched to your topics with deadlines attached. Tap a setup and Featured's chat will configure it with you.
- Core beat
Watch your expertise
“Set up a workflow that monitors journalist requests about legal technology and law firm operations, and emails me a daily digest with deadlines.”
Open in Featured - Hourly
Go hourly on hot topics
“Set up a workflow that checks hourly for journalist requests about climate tech and energy policy and posts matches to our #media Slack channel.”
Open in Featured - Agencies
Group by client
“Set up a workflow that monitors journalist requests for my clients in fintech, hospitality, and healthcare, grouped by client in one morning digest.”
Open in Featured - Personal brand
Build a founder's presence
“Set up a workflow that finds journalist requests a bootstrapped SaaS founder could answer about pricing, churn, and hiring, weekly to email.”
Open in Featured - Products
Catch roundup requests
“Set up a workflow that monitors requests seeking product recommendations where a DTC coffee brand fits, and alerts me same-day.”
Open in Featured - Regulated
Match with care
“Set up a workflow for journalist requests about healthcare compliance and patient privacy that only surfaces queries a HIPAA consultant could answer credibly.”
Open in Featured - Deadlines
Flag the expiring ones
“Set up a workflow that monitors requests about commercial insurance and flags anything with a deadline under 12 hours as urgent.”
Open in Featured - Draft-ready
Pair matches with drafts
“Set up a workflow that finds the best journalist request about supply chain each day and drafts a response in my voice for review.”
Open in Featured - Regional
Watch a region's press
“Set up a workflow that monitors journalist requests from Midwest business press seeking manufacturers and industrial employers, weekly.”
Open in Featured - Crypto
Digest a fast beat
“Set up a workflow that batches every journalist request about crypto regulation and stablecoins into a Friday digest.”
Open in Featured - New sources
Watch the writer platforms
“Set up a workflow that monitors only Substack and X for source requests from independent writers covering fitness and nutrition, with audience notes.”
Open in Featured - Low volume
Keep a quiet watch
“Set up a monthly workflow that surfaces the ten best journalist requests matching a boutique architecture firm.”
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What it matches
Opportunity-typed journalist queries across HARO's editions, Connectively's live feed, Substack, and X — matched to the beats and expertise you describe in plain language.
When it looks
Hourly for the deadline-driven, daily for most, weekly for a light touch. Launch weeks go hourly with one sentence.
Where results go
Email or Slack — per person, per team, or per client channel.
How Workflows work
Tell Featured what to monitor, when to look, and where to send results.
Describe your beats
Who you are and what you can speak to — “a payroll company; we can talk small business hiring, wage trends, and compliance.” That's the matching criteria.
Featured watches every source
HARO's three daily editions, Connectively's live feed, Substack, and X — matched continuously, deduplicated, and sorted by deadline.
Answer from the alert
Each match links back into Featured's chat, where a response gets drafted in your voice for review. Minutes from alert to sent pitch.
Why run journalist request alerts on Featured
The requests originate on platforms Featured operates. The workflow just closes the distance.
4 sources
Wider than any inbox
HARO, Connectively, Substack, and X in one matcher — including the writer-platform requests most monitoring never sees.
First
Operator-fast timing
Featured owns HARO and Connectively; requests hit the workflow as they're approved. On deadline-driven queries, that head start is the placement.
Matched
Relevance, not volume
You get the requests you could credibly answer — not every query containing your keyword. Plain-language matching against your actual expertise.
Prefer to search on demand?
The Journalist Requests feature runs the same matching as a conversation — ask, browse, and draft without setting anything up.
About Featured
Every 6 seconds
an expert connects with a publisher across Featured's platforms
100M+
emails HARO sent to sources in the last year
100,000+
experts, founders, and comms teams use Featured's platforms
Same features. Only usage scales.
Every plan includes journalist request monitoring.
Try Featured with no commitment.
Example usage
Chat with Featured to explore 2–3 media opportunities per week and see how AI-powered PR works.
- Featured Chat for discovering media opportunities
- Daily pitching tools to reach journalists
- Journalist request matching
- Core workflows to speed up outreach
- A gentle daily allowance to learn the platform
For solo practitioners running focused PR.
Example usage
Monitor HARO and similar feeds, draft pitches in Featured Chat, and ship a steady weekly cadence without burning out.
- 5× more AI usage than Free
- Everything in Free, plus:
- Workflows across your saved opportunities
- Deeper AI chat for drafting and research
- Higher limits for active weekly pitching
For power users running a full PR operation.
Example usage
Automate workflows across profiles, coordinate outreach, and lean on AI for research and drafting at serious volume.
- 5× more usage than Lite
- Everything in Lite, plus:
- Maximum daily allowance for credit-based actions
- Built for teams that live in the product
Journalist Requests workflow — frequently asked questions
What does the Journalist Requests workflow monitor?
Opportunity-typed journalist queries across four sources: HARO's three daily editions, Connectively's live platform feed, and source requests posted on Substack and X. Each is matched against the beats you describe, deduplicated, and delivered with its deadline to Slack or email.
How is this different from the Monitor HARO workflow?
Scope. Monitor HARO watches HARO exclusively, edition by edition. This workflow adds Connectively, Substack, and X — the full request surface. If you only want HARO, run that one; if you want everything reporters are asking for, run this.
How does the matching work?
You describe your expertise in plain language — no boolean strings — and the workflow evaluates every incoming request against it: topic fit, credibility fit, and deadline. The result is a short list you could actually answer, not a keyword dump. Refining is conversational: “fewer consumer queries, more B2B.”
How quickly will I see new requests?
On an hourly cadence, matches typically reach Slack or email within the hour they're approved. Because Featured operates HARO and Connectively, there's no scraping delay in front of the workflow — timing that matters on queries where reporters pick sources the same day.
Can it draft my responses?
Yes — configure it to draft a response for your best match daily, in your voice, using your bio and proof points. You review before anything sends. Automated volume is a losing strategy with journalists; matched relevance plus a human-approved draft is what gets picked.
Do I need a paid plan?
Workflows require a paid plan — $39/month (Lite) or $79/month (Pro, billed annually); every plan includes every feature and only usage scales. Try the same matching free in Featured chat first to calibrate your beats.
Who runs this workflow?
Experts and founders who want coverage without living in feeds, comms teams staffing a response rotation from a Slack channel, and agencies running one workflow per client with grouped digests. Anyone whose expertise is quotable — which is more people than assume it.
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Reporters are asking right now
Somewhere in today's requests is one with your name on it. Let the workflow catch it.