What do I need to use The Journalist Call?

The subject; The uncomfortable truths; The outlet type; Prior coverage or public record.

Is The Journalist Call free to use?

Yes — run it free in the browser playground (no API key needed for the sponsored trial, or bring any provider key), or install it into Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and more via npx pm-claude-skills. MIT-licensed and open source.

The Journalist Call

Q: How do I know the The Journalist Call output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: Questions derive from the supplied record and claims — no invented scandal; Every dodge in the transcript received its follow-up; The article quotes the transcript accurately — the sting comes from the answers, not the writing; The headline traces to a specific weak answer.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-17 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-simulators

Simulate a hostile-but-fair journalist interview about your company or announcement — the questions you fear, live follow-ups on every dodge, then the story they'd file. Use when asked to media-train me, simulate a press interview, prep me for a journalist call, or how will this announcement be covered. Produces the interview transcript with your likely stumbles, the article they would write from it, and a debrief with bridge lines and the quotes to prepare.

▶ Run it free — no key needed 📝 Grade your existing draft View SKILL.md ↗

What to give it

▸The subject — the announcement, incident, or company situation being covered

▸The uncomfortable truths — what's true that you'd rather not discuss (the simulation is only as useful as this honesty)

▸The outlet type — trade press, business daily, or investigative changes the register

▸Prior coverage or public record — journalists read; the simulation should know what they know

✅ The bar it holds itself to

Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.

✓Questions derive from the supplied record and claims — no invented scandal

✓Every dodge in the transcript received its follow-up

✓The article quotes the transcript accurately — the sting comes from the answers, not the writing

✓The headline traces to a specific weak answer

✓The debrief provides usable lines, not "be more confident"

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not simulate a hit job — unfair simulations teach persecution, not preparation

Do not let the interviewee answer better than their materials suggest they would — the stumbles are the training

Do not write the article kind — write it fair; fair is what stings usefully

Do not teach message-track robotics — bridges that sound trained become the story too

Do not stay in character in the debrief

Install

npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude   # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcp

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🔌 Embed this skill

Drop this on your blog, docs, or site — it renders a "Run this skill" card:

<div data-pm-skill="the-journalist-call"></div>
<script src="https://mohitagw15856.github.io/pm-claude-skills/embed.js" async></script>

💬 Discussion

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