Featured, the AI co-pilot for PR, has added 6,251 beehiiv newsletters to its Find Independent Writers search, giving public relations professionals and subject-matter experts a way to locate newsletter writers by topic using plain-language requests. The addition matters because a growing share of journalism now happens outside traditional newsroom directories, and the new dataset shows that most of these writers are active, reachable and concentrated in the business and technology categories where many companies want coverage.
According to The State of beehiiv for PR, Featured analyzed the 6,251 newsletters in its database as of October 20, 2026. Of those, 81.6% published at least once in the prior 30 days and 47.7% published 12 or more times in the prior 90 days, roughly weekly or more. The data also shows 85.7% link at least one social account, with Instagram at 57.9% and LinkedIn at 57.0%, followed by X, YouTube, Facebook and TikTok. That reachability is significant for PR teams that have struggled to identify independent writers, since beehiiv authors rarely appear in conventional media lists.
The tool lets a user type a request such as "find beehiiv newsletters that cover B2B SaaS marketing" and review matching newsletters with their authors, topics, publishing cadence, linked social accounts and displayed subscriber counts before drafting a pitch from the same screen. Results can be downloaded as a CSV. The search covers Substack, beehiiv, Ghost and Medium in one place, and adding a platform name narrows the results; a request to "find beehiiv newsletters about personal finance" returns only beehiiv results, while a broader search asks Featured to "find independent writers who cover personal finance" across all four platforms.
The category breakdown underscores why the addition could reshape outreach priorities. Among the 5,834 newsletters with a category tag, business leads at 27.0%, followed by technology at 16.8% and artificial intelligence at 14.6%. Marketing and community each account for 10.5%, news for 10.4% and finance for 9.9%. Among the 470 newsletters that display a subscriber count, the median is 17,000, while 294 show 10,000 or more and 86 show 100,000 or more. The largest include The Rundown AI at 2,000,000 and Superhuman AI at 1,500,000. Featured's founder and CEO, Brett Farmiloe, said beehiiv writers publish fast and most link a social profile, making them easy to reach and easy to pitch badly. He said the search is designed to help a PR professional find the five newsletters that already cover their subject rather than blast five hundred, adding that relevance over volume is the whole product.
The launch lands as independent publishing expands. beehiiv's own State of Paid Newsletters 2026 report, published June 22, 2026, says subscription revenue on the platform grew from $8 million in 2024 to $19 million in 2025. Muck Rack's State of Creator Journalism report, published October 28, 2025, found that one in three journalists now self-publish independently. Find Independent Writers is available now at Featured on every plan, including the free plan, with no credit card required.
