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Pitch Email Generator for Freelance Journalists — Structured Pitch Template

Editors reject pitches for missing information as often as for a weak idea — no word count, no delivery date, no reason it should be you. A fixed structure forces every one of those into the email before you send it.

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Pitch Email Generator

Fill in the details below to generate a professional pitch email you can copy and send.

How it works

  • Inputs are your name, the editor name, the publication, a story type chosen from nine fixed options (news story, feature, investigation, comment, interview, profile, review, explainer, data journalism piece), the headline or angle, a key detail summary, a word count, a delivery date and your credentials.
  • It assembles a fixed template: a subject line of Pitch: followed by your headline, a salutation, then sections headed HEADLINE / ANGLE, THE STORY, FORMAT & LENGTH, DELIVERY and WHY ME, and a sign-off.
  • Anything you leave blank is rendered as a visible square-bracket placeholder such as [Editor’s Name] or [e.g. 1,200-word feature], so the draft shows you exactly what is still missing.
  • One button copies the whole email to the clipboard, with a fallback for browsers that block clipboard access.

When to use it

  • A first pitch to an editor you have not worked with, where structure signals that you know how commissioning works.
  • When you have the idea clear in your head but keep writing rambling pitch emails.
  • Pitching the same story to a second outlet after a rejection, where you need the details restated cleanly.
  • Teaching or mentoring, to show what a complete pitch contains.

What it does not do

  • This is string templating, not AI. It does not rewrite, improve, shorten or assess anything you type — the pitch is exactly as good as the words you put in the boxes.
  • The bracketed placeholders are copied along with everything else. An unfilled field will go out to a commissioning editor as [Editor’s Name] unless you proofread the copied text.
  • Word count and delivery date are free text with no validation, so nothing stops you promising a date that has already passed.
  • It produces the same visible structure every time. If you pitch several editors at the same publisher, they will recognise the template.
  • Nothing is saved and there is no record of what you sent to whom — use the Pitch Success Rate tracker for that.

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