Newsweek Journo Responded to Every Pitch for a Week. You Won't BELIEVE What Happened Next

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In a perfect world, every journalist would respond to all of our pitches, right? Even a polite “thanks, I might check it out” would be better than nothing at all, wouldn’t it?

Yesterday, Zach Schonfeld of Newsweek posted a piece in which he recounted his experience doing exactly that for a whole week.

Let’s just say it doesn’t sound like much fun.

First his basic statement of purpose:

“for every inbox blast that’s relevant to me, there are four or five more that may as well be from a Nigerian prince”

Oh do we hear you, Zach.

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