Here is some added context in @dezeen.com by Ellen Eberhardt

www.dezeen.com/2025/11/24/d...

I should add too it was your piece that inspired me to finally send one of my ideas along! It was a very good/ cool piece. They way you cross analyzed Night City with Toronto. One of my fav reads of the year.

I did send one along but didn't hear back - which is fine it was not my best pitch haha. I have a few more cooking that I'm going to develop.

Ahh I c one must create an individual filter for each email, what a lovely time for technology and its endless ability to make our lives better lol.

Okay but they punish you for doing this by flooding your primary inbox with promotional emails ... is there a workaround?

High on my list of freelancer goals is getting to write for them one day!

Writers today don't have role models or teams to fall back on, they have clients, and think that is the perfect petri dish for good writers to burn out, and bad actors to take their place.

I think this story speaks to another issue - as newsrooms have vanished freelancers are leaned on more and more to carry the load bearing weight for the industry. But it is something writers need to do without the mentorship and guidance enjoyed by past generations of writers.

Very respectable, I'm a Villa man