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Monitor HARO Workflow

HARO publishes source requests three times every weekday — 5:35am, 12:35pm, and 5:35pm ET. This workflow reads every edition the moment it lands, matches queries to your beats, and alerts you in Slack or email. Built by the company that operates HARO.

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Featured owns and operates HARO · 100M+ source emails sent in the last year

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HARO's three weekday editions, matched to your beats as they land. Tap a setup and Featured's chat will configure it with you.

  • Every edition

    Never miss an edition

    “Set up a workflow that monitors every HARO edition for queries about personal finance and emails me matches within the hour.”

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  • Slack alerts

    Pipe matches to Slack

    “Set up a HARO monitor for queries mentioning cybersecurity, ransomware, or data breaches, delivered to our #haro Slack channel as each edition lands.”

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  • Morning only

    Skim one edition

    “Set up a workflow that monitors only the 5:35am HARO edition for parenting and education queries and sends me one email by 7am.”

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  • Gift guides

    Watch the gift guide season

    “Set up a workflow that monitors HARO's Gift Bags and Gift Guides category and alerts me when product roundups fit a sustainable home goods brand.”

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  • Multi-keyword

    Cover a keyword cluster

    “Set up a HARO monitor for queries about real estate investing, mortgage rates, or first-time home buying, batched into a daily digest.”

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  • Agencies

    One monitor per client

    “Set up separate HARO monitors for my four clients — fitness, legal, SaaS, and restaurants — each alerting its own Slack channel.”

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  • Deadline triage

    Flag the urgent ones

    “Set up a workflow that monitors HARO for health and pharma queries and flags any with deadlines under 24 hours as urgent.”

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  • Draft-ready

    Wake up to drafts

    “Set up a HARO monitor for small business marketing queries that drafts a response using my bio whenever a strong match appears, ready for my review.”

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  • Travel

    Own a lifestyle category

    “Set up a workflow that monitors HARO's Travel and Lifestyle categories for queries a boutique hotel group could answer, daily to email.”

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  • B2B tech

    Watch enterprise queries

    “Set up a HARO monitor for queries seeking CIOs or IT leaders on enterprise software, cloud costs, or AI adoption, delivered as they land.”

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  • Weekly recap

    The Sunday catch-up

    “Set up a workflow that summarizes every HARO query from the past week matching sustainability and climate topics, sent Sunday evening with what's still open.”

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  • Team triage

    Claim queries as a team

    “Set up a HARO monitor for our insurance expertise that posts each match to Slack as its own message, so teammates can claim queries in threads.”

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What it matches

Every query in every HARO edition — matched against your topics, keywords, and expertise described in plain language, across categories from Business and Finance to Travel to Gift Guides.

When it looks

As each edition lands — morning, afternoon, and evening — or batched into a daily or weekly digest if you'd rather skim once.

Where results go

Email or Slack. Solo experts use their inbox; teams post matches to a channel where anyone can claim a query.

How Workflows work

Tell Featured what to monitor, when to look, and where to send results.

  1. 01

    Describe your beats

    Topics, keywords, and the expertise you can credibly speak to — plain language, not boolean strings. The workflow matches every HARO query against it.

  2. 02

    Pick edition-time or digest

    Get alerts as each of the three daily editions lands, or batch matches into a daily or weekly digest. Deadlines are surfaced either way.

  3. 03

    Claim, draft, send

    From any alert, Featured's chat drafts your response in your voice — helpful, authentic, relevant, on time — and you review before it goes anywhere.

Why monitor HARO through Featured

Plenty of tools watch HARO from the outside. One company operates it.

  • Operator

    From HARO's home

    Featured owns and operates HARO. The workflow reads editions the moment they publish — no scraping lag, no missed editions, no secondhand data.

  • 3×/day

    Every edition, covered

    Morning, afternoon, and evening editions — 5:35am, 12:35pm, 5:35pm ET — matched and delivered before the queries you fit expire.

  • Matched

    Your beats, not your inbox

    HARO's emails carry every query in your categories. The workflow reads them all and surfaces only what you could credibly answer — with the deadline attached.

Want more than HARO?

The Journalist Requests workflow adds Connectively's live feed plus Substack and X source requests to the same alerting.

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About Featured

  • 100M+

    emails HARO sent to sources in the last year

  • 3

    editions every weekday: 5:35am, 12:35pm, 5:35pm ET

  • Every 6 seconds

    an expert connects with a publisher across Featured's platforms

Same features. Only usage scales.

Monitor HARO workflow — frequently asked questions

What is HARO?+−

HARO — Help a Reporter Out — is the platform journalists have used since 2008 to request expert sources. It publishes queries in three daily email editions, and sources reply to get quoted. Featured acquired HARO from Cision in April 2025 and operates it today; it sent more than 100 million emails to sources in the last year and remains free for journalists and sources.

What times do HARO editions go out?+−

Weekdays at 5:35am, 12:35pm, and 5:35pm Eastern. This workflow reads each edition as it lands and alerts you on matches immediately — or holds everything for a daily or weekly digest, your choice. Deadlines ride along either way, so you always know which queries expire first.

Is HARO free? Why pay for monitoring?+−

HARO is free and staying free — subscribe and you'll get every edition by email. The workflow is for people who don't want to read three emails a day: it matches every query against your specific expertise, filters the rest, flags deadlines, and can pre-draft responses. You pay for the filtering and the speed, not for HARO.

How fast are the alerts?+−

Matches from a new edition can reach your Slack or inbox within the hour of publication. On competitive queries, that timing matters — reporters often collect the responses they need within hours of an edition going out.

Can the workflow draft responses for me?+−

It can draft; you send. Tell it to prepare a response using your bio whenever a strong match appears, and you'll review a ready draft instead of a blank page. The human-in-the-loop step is deliberate — journalists increasingly filter fully automated pitches, and your credibility is the asset.

Do I need a paid plan?+−

No — workflows are available on every plan, including Free. Runs pause when the daily usage cap is hit; a Free workspace's first run may pause on the 10¢ cap. You can search HARO queries manually in Featured chat on the free plan to feel the matching first.

Monitor HARO or the Journalist Requests workflow — which one?+−

Monitor HARO watches HARO exclusively, edition by edition. The Journalist Requests workflow widens the net to Connectively, Substack, and X. HARO loyalists run this one; most teams eventually run the wider version. Same setup either way — switching later is one sentence.

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Three editions a day. Zero missed.

Let the company that runs HARO watch HARO for you — and alert you the moment your query appears.

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Lite

For solo practitioners running focused PR.

$29Per month, billed annually at $348

Example usage

Monitor HARO and similar feeds, draft pitches in Featured Chat, and ship a steady weekly cadence without burning out.

  • 5× more AI usage than Free
  • Everything in Free, plus:
  • Workflows across your saved opportunities
  • Deeper AI chat for drafting and research
  • Higher limits for active weekly pitching
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For power users running a full PR operation.

$79Per month, billed annually at $948
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Example usage

Automate workflows, coordinate outreach, and lean on AI for research and drafting at serious volume.

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  • Maximum daily allowance for credit-based actions
  • Built for teams that live in the product