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One in Three Media Contacts Found Online Cannot Be Verified as Deliverable, Analysis Finds
About one in three media contacts from public sources cannot be confirmed as deliverable, based on data from the media contact platform Media List.
Journalists frequently change jobs or outlets, beats are reassigned, and newsroom addresses become inactive or are retired without notice, affecting contact accuracy.
Media lists deteriorate over time, causing email pitches to bounce and harming the sender's domain reputation, which can lead to more emails landing in spam.
Only continuous re-verification of media contacts is effective, as lists decay from the moment they are created, according to Media List's analysis.