I have some shots from a public event of a political candidate that might be
of interest for editorial. Do you have any ideas how to contact some agencies?

I sent an email to Getty, fat chance it will read by a human.

I know that PhotoShelter and ShutterStock take editorial/news but I was wondering if any of the macro agencies do without being a pro?

Thanks.

I remembered reading something about Scoopt and looked up the post: 

Scoopt (owned by Getty) is a total joke and a ploy by Jonathan Klien at Getty to trick consumers that snatch celebs in dicey moments into giving the content to Getty so that they can negotiate high rates the magazines and take 60%.  99.99% of everything that goes up on the site never gets a sale - not a drop, not a dime, just a marketing ploy by Getty so they can say they are in the consumer journalism space. 

However, every now and then, a consumer may get something really juicy (the 0.01% of images) and be so stupid as to send it to Scoopt or Mr Paparazzi (www.mrpaparazzi.com) .  When they get your juicy photo - once a year it can be something really nice - they give it to the Getty Sales reps who go and negotiate prices with the mags and start bidding wars for your images.  They sell to the highest bidder and they keep 60% - like a broker that does nothing in the sale of a home or an insurance policy - a total rip off and they want 60% of a one time sale.

NOTE TO ANYONE THAT READS THIS:  If you get something really juicy, you will know it's juicy and you should go directly to the top 6 overpayers of celeb content - People, US Weekly, OK Magazine, In Touch, Life and Style, Star, and Hello! (UK) and sell the image yourself.  Tell them you will grant them the exclusive rights for USA print & online and make them pay top dollar - these places have huge budgets and $150k for something juicy is not unheard of for them to pay - e.g. these mags have paid over $3M for certain images in the past. 

After you take care of the USA sale, go and license the international sales exclusively and separately on your own as well.  Don't give these hawks 60% of your sale.  You can do this yourself for that once in a lifetime photo.  Don't let these fronts rip you off.  For non-juicy content, you are better posting on a micropayment site than on Scoopt.