The Tell: How Editors and Recruiters Are Spotting AI-Drafted Outreach in 2026
A features editor scrolls through 180 unread pitches before her second coffee. Three of them open with the same tidy compliment about her recent piece. Two use the word "resonate." One promises a story that will unpack a market she covers weekly. She archives all three inside twenty seconds. None of them were badly written. […]

