Free journalist request service for charities
Increase media coverage for your charity. Help journalists by sharing your expertise. Provide comments, quotes, case studies and statistics for news articles and features.
Free for qualified registered charities using a charity email address
Dot Star Media has enabled us to keep an eye on any requests that are relevant to our work, where we can add value and provide useful information.
Richard Beesley, Juvenile Arthritis Research
Dot Star Media offers a simple, user friendly service which has allowed us to identify opportunities for our campaigns, which we were previously unable to benefit from due to limited resource to search for opportunities.
Franchesca Allen, Macmillan Cancer Support
Dot Star Media is great because it aggregates all the journalist requests that are specifically relevant to you, so you don’t have to trawl through Twitter and wade through irrelevant content.
Sarah Swaysland, The Volunteer idea
Requests from top media outlets
Receive media request notifications from journalists who write for high profile national and regional broadcast, print and online media – as they happen.
This word cloud is sourced from the submitter biographies of journalist requests distributed by Dot Star Media. It shows the most frequently mentioned media outlets and publishers – the kinds of media where charities have the chance to gain valuable coverage.
Easy to use
Journalist requests come from social media – in particular #journorequest on X/Twitter, Bluesky, or our journalist enquiry submit form.
The media request alerts are delivered as simply formatted emails. Individual notifications include the full request, submitter’s name, biographical information and reply options. Send replies directly to the journalist.
Media opportunities without the noise
On a typical day more than 80% of the traffic on #journorequest is noise. We streamline the best journalist requests to your inbox, Teams, or Slack channels. You can focus on media relations rather than wading through spam.
Enquiry volumes across all 29 topics are currently around 400 requests per week – all from verified journalists writing for established media outlets.
Topics, digests and keyword filtering
You may need to work on different campaigns, in different sectors, at different times. You can change your charity’s media request topics to match your current campaigns whenever you like.
If individual requests are too much, receive periodic digest alerts. Or for total control, setup keyword filtering and only receive requests that include words on your keyword list.
Completely free for charities
The media works better when it includes a diverse range of voices. Charities, especially smaller ones, often can’t afford the fees for traditional media request services – and are denied a voice. We want to help change that by making Dot Star Media available free for registered charities.
Journalists also benefit from a media request service that provides access to a range of sources with a good balance of commercial and not-for-profit organisations.
Dot Star Media is run by Jonathan Tullett and Dan Griffiths. After decades in the industry developing tools for the PR and journalism industries – including the ResponseSource Journalist Enquiry Service – Dan and Jonathan launched Dot Star Media to provide a new approach to targeted media request monitoring. Our intention is that the free service for in-house staff and trustees at qualifying charities will be available indefinitely.
Free for qualified registered charities using a charity email address