Journalist Access Programme — Free EU Legislative Intelligence for Accredited Journalists | GovLens
GovLens gives accredited journalists complimentary access to every feature, every jurisdiction, and every dataset on the platform. All we ask is attribution.
Apply for press access →All 14 jurisdictions
EU Parliament plus every national legislature we cover — no restrictions.
Lobbying & influence data
30 years of meeting records, declared budgets, and voting correlations.
Alerts, analytics & API
Real-time legislative alerts, anomaly detection, and programmatic data access.
The condition: cite GovLens
If your reporting uses our data, reference GovLens as the source. That's it.
Everything enterprise clients pay for. Free for your newsroom.
Your journalist account has no feature walls, no time limits, and no seat restrictions. The same intelligence tools used by compliance teams and trade associations — available to you at no cost.
All jurisdictions
EU Parliament plus 13 national legislatures. Cross-reference legislative activity across member states.
MEP influence mapping
Who's lobbying which MEPs, how they vote, and where the anomalies are. Decades of records, searchable.
Real-time alerts
Itemised legislative change notifications. Exact line-item diffs — not vague "law updated" emails.
Anomaly detection
Coordinated voting, unusual meeting frequency before key votes, MEPs voting against party lines.
30-year voting archive
Every EP roll-call vote going back three decades. Filter and export for your own analysis.
API access
Programmatic access to the full dataset. Import data into your newsroom tools and automate research.
Use our data freely.
Credit the source.
Any article, report, or broadcast that relies on data from GovLens must include a clear source reference. This applies to voting records, lobbying data, legislative timelines, and anything else sourced from the platform.
No editorial approval. No pre-publication review. No strings beyond proper attribution.
How you phrase it is up to you. The example above is a suggestion — any clear reference to GovLens as the data source is sufficient.
Three steps. No bureaucracy.
Submit your details
Your work email, name, LinkedIn profile, and the publication you write for. Takes under a minute.
We verify your credentials
Our team checks your identity and publication affiliation. We confirm you're actively covering EU policy or regulation.
You get full access
Once approved, we email you account details. No trial period — your access lasts as long as you're actively reporting.
Request journalist access
Fill in the form and we'll review your application within 2 business days. If approved, you'll receive full platform access at no cost.