How to Find beehiiv Newsletters to Pitch on Featured.com: A Step-by-Step Guide

Find Independent Writers is a search on Featured, the AI co-pilot for PR, that lets you find newsletter writers by topic in plain language. As of October 2026 it covers 6,251 beehiiv newsletters, alongside publications on Substack, Ghost, and Medium. Type what you are looking for, review the matching beehiiv newsletters with their authors, topics, social accounts, and publishing cadence, click Draft Pitch for a starting draft, and download the results as a CSV. This guide walks through the full process from first search to saved list. Bookmark it; we will keep it current as the feature evolves.

Why pitch beehiiv newsletters?

beehiiv is where a large share of business, technology, and AI newsletters now live. Across the beehiiv newsletters in Featured's database, 81.6% published in the last 30 days, 85.7% link at least one social account, and 38.0% are recommended by at least one other beehiiv newsletter. The largest categories are business (27.0% of tagged newsletters), technology (16.8%), artificial intelligence (14.6%), marketing (10.5%), and finance (9.9%). A placement in the right one puts your client in front of readers who chose to subscribe to that subject.

Start with your objective

Find Independent Writers searches by industry and topic, so the clearer you are about the subject, the better the results. Settle three questions before you type:

Which topic does the newsletter need to cover? "Marketing" is a starting point; "B2B SaaS marketing for early-stage startups" is a search.
Who do you want to reach? Describe the reader, then translate that into what the writer covers. A newsletter read by heads of growth is one that writes about demand generation.
How often does the newsletter need to publish? A daily briefing can run a timely quote this week. A monthly essay needs a bigger idea and more lead time.

Step 1: Write your prompt

Go to featured.com and type a plain-language request that names beehiiv and the topic. You do not need special syntax. Requests that work well:

Lead with what the newsletter writes about rather than who you hope reads it. If the first set of results is too broad, reply with a narrower topic; if it is too narrow, reply with an adjacent one. Because the search works through conversation, you can refine as many times as you like without starting over. Leave the word beehiiv out of the request to search Substack, Ghost, and Medium at the same time.

Step 2: Review the results

Featured returns a set of newsletter cards. Each card shows the newsletter's name, its author, a description of what it covers, its topic tags, its website, the subscriber count the newsletter displays on its site when it displays one, and the writer's linked social accounts, including LinkedIn, X, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, and Facebook where the writer has linked them. Subscriber counts and email addresses are shown as the publication reports them and are not verified by Featured.

Use the cards to shortlist, then do three things before you pitch anyone:

Read the newsletter. Open the website and read the last three issues. You are looking for the format (daily briefing, weekly essay, curated links, or interviews), the writer's angle, and whether your idea fits the way they already cover the subject.
Check the cadence. A newsletter that publishes several times a week needs material constantly and can run a timely item fast. A newsletter that publishes monthly is a slower, bigger pitch.
Pick the channel. Most beehiiv writers do not list a public email, and only 6.4% of the newsletters in the database do. 57.0% link a LinkedIn profile, which is the usual route for business and technology writers. If the newsletter's website lists a contact page or a pitch policy, follow it.

Step 3: Draft a pitch

When you have found a newsletter worth pitching, click Draft Pitch on its card. Featured writes a short starting draft based on the newsletter, which you can review and edit on the same screen. Treat it as a first draft, not a finished message. Add the specific reason you are reaching out: the issue you read, the expert you can offer, or the data you can share. Keep the finished pitch under 200 words. Featured's own HARO data shows why the edit matters: journalists are about three times more likely to use a human-written pitch, and 35% now block AI-generated responses outright.

Then send it through the channel the writer uses. If the newsletter lists a contact page or email, use that. If not, send a short connection note on LinkedIn that names the newsletter, then the pitch. Follow up once after three to seven days if you do not hear back, and then stop.

Step 4: Download your results as a CSV

Once you have a set of results you want to keep, download them as a CSV. The file gives you the newsletters and their details in a spreadsheet you can add to a media list, share with a client, or return to for future outreach. Running a few narrow searches and saving each one builds a reusable beehiiv list for every topic you cover.

Putting it together

The whole process fits inside one conversation: describe the newsletters you want, review the cards, draft and send the pitch, and save the list. A few habits make the results better. Run several narrow searches rather than one broad one. Favor fit and cadence over size. Read before you pitch, because the writers who reply are the ones who can tell you read their work. And once one writer covers you, search for the newsletters that recommend them; 38.0% of beehiiv newsletters in the database are recommended by at least one other.

No login or setup is required to run a first search. Go to featured.com and type "Find beehiiv newsletters that cover your topic" to see who is writing about your industry right now.