Whether you’re a reporter or an editor, your inbox has probably seen an influx of pitches, increasingly written with artificial intelligence. They’re likely bad, irrelevant and annoyingly clogging up your email.
But one publication is over it. If you want to write for The Food Section, you’ll have to pick up the phone.
“We’re switching to a pitch-by-phone system come September,” founder Hanna Raskin announced on Tuesday. “Having been deluged by AI-generated and enhanced story ideas this summer, we’re re-humanizing the process with a dedicated hotline (which has the added benefit of weeding out supposed reporters who aren’t in the habit of ringing up strangers.)”
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