How to Find beehiiv Newsletters to Pitch: Seven Ways to Build a Newsletter Media List
A growing share of the writers who cover business, technology, finance, and AI now publish a newsletter on beehiiv rather than work in a newsroom. beehiiv's State of Paid Newsletters 2026 report says subscription revenue on the platform grew from $8 million to $19 million in a year, and Muck Rack's State of Journalism 2026 survey found that 37% of journalists now publish independently. For PR teams, that creates a practical problem: beehiiv newsletters live on thousands of separate domains, most writers do not publish an email address, and no masthead lists who covers what.
This guide covers how to decide what you are looking for, seven ways to find the right beehiiv newsletters, and how to pitch once you have a list.
Start with the reader, not the platform
Before searching, answer three questions. What topic does the newsletter need to cover? Who reads it? And how often does it need to publish? The answers decide which methods below are worth your time. A timely expert reaction belongs in a daily briefing. A founder story belongs in a weekly essay newsletter. A newsletter read by 4,000 heads of growth will usually outperform a 200,000-subscriber general business briefing for a B2B story, because the reader opened the email for the subject you are offering.
Seven ways to find beehiiv newsletters
1. beehiiv's recommendations network. Every beehiiv newsletter can recommend other newsletters, and new subscribers see those recommendations when they sign up. Subscribe to one strong fit in your category, note what it recommends, and follow the chain. In Featured's analysis of 6,251 beehiiv newsletters, 38.0% are recommended by at least one other beehiiv newsletter, so a single seed publication usually leads to several more in the same niche.
2. The beehiiv Ad Network and sponsorship marketplaces. beehiiv runs an ad network that lets advertisers see newsletters by category and audience size, and independent marketplaces such as Paved do the same across platforms. They exist to sell sponsorships, not editorial coverage, but they are the fastest way to see which newsletters in a category have real reach and who runs them. Use them to size a list, then pitch editorially through another channel.
3. Search operators. A web search for site:beehiiv.com "supply chain" returns newsletters and individual posts that mention the term. It only catches newsletters on a beehiiv.com subdomain, and 42.9% of beehiiv newsletters in Featured's database publish on their own custom domain, so add a second search for your topic plus "newsletter" or "subscribe" to catch the rest. Slow, free, and surprisingly thorough.
4. Media databases. Muck Rack has included newsletter authors since 2021 and lets subscribers search them by topic and add them to media lists. Cision and other enterprise databases include newsletter writers to varying degrees. If your team already pays for one, check its beehiiv coverage before buying anything else; the gap is usually in newer and smaller newsletters.
5. Newsletter directories. Independent directories and newsletter finders index newsletters across platforms. Reletter covers Substack and LinkedIn newsletters with contact details, and several smaller beehiiv-specific databases have appeared on Product Hunt. Coverage of beehiiv varies widely and most are built for readers or newsletter operators rather than PR, so check whether a directory shows topic, cadence, and a contact route before relying on it.
6. PR tools built for independent writers. A newer category of PR software indexes newsletter platforms directly. Featured, for example, lets you type "find beehiiv newsletters that cover commercial real estate" and returns a card for each match with the author, topic tags, publishing cadence, linked social accounts, and the subscriber count the newsletter displays, then drafts a starting pitch and exports the list as a CSV. Its database covers 6,251 beehiiv newsletters alongside Substack, Ghost, and Medium as of October 2026. Tools in this category trade breadth for workflow: they are narrower than a full media database but faster for this one job.
7. LinkedIn and your own network. beehiiv writers are social-first. In Featured's data, 57.0% link a LinkedIn profile and 85.7% link at least one social account, against 6.4% who publish an email address. Search LinkedIn for a topic plus "newsletter" and look at who posts every issue. Then ask clients, colleagues, and the experts you represent which newsletters they read; the ones that circulate inside an industry are the ones worth pitching.
Pitch the way beehiiv writers want to be pitched
beehiiv writers publish fast. In Featured's analysis, 81.6% published in the last 30 days and 47.7% published 12 or more times in the last 90 days. A writer on that schedule wants material that is ready to run, in the format they already use, from someone who clearly read the last issue.
Read before you write, and name a specific issue. Match the format: a quote for a daily briefing, a guest essay for a weekly essay, a data point for a curated list. Bring something exclusive, such as original data or a named expert who will answer questions in writing within a day. Reach the writer where they are, which usually means LinkedIn. Write the pitch yourself; HARO's data shows journalists are about three times more likely to use a human-written pitch than an AI-written one, and newsletter writers apply the same filter. Follow up once, and then stop.
The bottom line
No single tool covers beehiiv. The best lists come from combining a broad source, such as a media database or a PR tool, with the recommendations network and a few manual searches to reach the writers no index has caught yet. The writers are active, the audiences are real, and the research is now a matter of minutes rather than days.