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Summary

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Added pr-calendar to build six‑month PR plans from Medialyst and enhanced find-journalists with wider research, self‑audit for gaps, single‑call enrichment, and iterative “pull the thread” discovery.

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Added

  • pr-calendar now builds planned PR calendars from Medialyst's live PR
    calendar API.
    The new skill pulls source-backed upcoming moments through
    newsjack pr-calendar query or the Medialyst MCP fallback, keeps only the
    moments where the brand has real standing, researches prior-year coverage
    patterns with news-search, and turns the result into a six-month,
    lead-time-aware plan.
  • The CLI now wraps POST /api/v1/pr-calendar/query. Agents can query
    source-backed awareness days, seasonal hooks, conferences, retail moments,
    and cultural moments with convenience filters or an exact JSON API body.

Changed

  • find-journalists now casts a wider research net before narrowing. The
    skill separates two stages with opposite instincts — research wide (review on
    the order of ~100 articles/bylines across multiple queries, angles, regions,
    and outlet tiers to find ~10 real fits), then send tight — and clarifies that
    the anti-spam doctrine governs the send, not how widely you research. List
    size is now framed as an output of how many journalists genuinely fit, not a
    target to hit; the wave can be larger or smaller than 5-15 when the evidence
    says so.
  • find-journalists now self-audits for coverage gaps before returning.
    A new step checks for obvious misses (unsearched regions/tiers, untried
    angles, competitor coverage, freelancers/newsletters, breaking coverage,
    unchased ambiguous bylines) and loops until a fresh round surfaces no new
    fits — coverage saturation — rather than stopping at a number. The summary
    now reports how wide the search went and where it stopped.
  • find-journalists now enriches the whole candidate pool in one call, then
    ranks.
    The skill invites the user to enrich the entire on-topic pool — one
    enrich call takes up to 500 article URLs, so it passes the whole pool in a
    single call instead of hand-splitting batches. Enrichment returns each
    journalist's verified contact and recent articles, and that evidence is then
    ranked to set the send waves/tiers (enrich a lot, send few) rather than
    pre-narrowing to a few anchors before enriching.
  • find-journalists now teaches the "pull the thread" research method.
    Instead of only firing queries thought up in advance, the skill searches a
    topic, reads the coverage, harvests the named entities and phrases inside it
    (people, companies, regulators, programs, events, quoted sources), and
    searches those in turn — repeating until new threads stop surfacing new
    coverage. This is how the non-obvious bylines, which usually sit two or three
    hops in, get found.

What's Changed

  • docs(find-journalists): consolidate skill into one decision path by @elvisun in https://github.com/elvisun/newsjack/pull/52
  • [codex] Add PR calendar API support by @elvisun in https://github.com/elvisun/newsjack/pull/53

Full Changelog: https://github.com/elvisun/newsjack/compare/v0.1.14...v0.1.15

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