📰 Newsroom Triage Agent

Journalists don't have an email problem — they have a signal-to-noise problem. Hundreds of pitches, PR blasts, tips, and interview requests land every day, and only a handful are worth chasing.

Newsroom Triage Agent reads inbound email, scores it against a transparent Worth Pursuing rubric, and writes a tidy row to a Triaged Inbox database in Notion. The journalist stops sifting and starts the day on the Pursue Queue — what's worth pursuing today, not what's unread.

It runs in two modes:

Auto mode — connect your mailbox once, and every new email is scored, tagged, and logged automatically. No replies, no archiving, no inbox state changes. The agent only writes rows.

Mention mode — @-mention the agent on any page or paste a thread in chat for a structured second opinion, returned as a clean Triage Card.

The rubric, taxonomy, and database all live as editable Notion pages — so you can tune the weights, beats, and verdict bands to your desk without rewriting prompts.

Key features

Worth Pursuing rubric — five criteria, ten points: newsworthiness, beat relevance, source credibility, timeliness/exclusivity, effort vs. payoff.

Hybrid taxonomy — every email gets a Priority (P0 Urgent → P4 Noise) and a Type (Pitch · Tip/Source · PR/Press release · Interview request · Admin · Personal).

Triaged Inbox database — pre-built with Pursue Queue, By Priority, By Type, and Archive views.

Confidence scoring — High / Medium / Low, so borderline calls are visible, not hidden.

Kill-switch — pause auto-triage any time by disabling the mail trigger; Mention mode still works.

UK English, calm voice — no manufactured urgency, no clickbait, newsroom-native vocabulary (lede, embargo, off-the-record, beat, desk).

Read-only by design — the agent never replies, archives, or changes inbox state.

Who it's for

Newsroom journalists and reporters fielding high-volume inbound (pitches, tips, PR blasts, interview requests).

Desk editors triaging an inbox on behalf of a team.

Independent writers and creators who want a calm filter on a busy professional inbox.

What's included

The Newsroom Triage Agent (custom Notion AI agent) with full instructions, output template, and edge-case handling.

The Triaged Inbox database with pre-built properties and four views (Pursue Queue, By Priority, By Type, Archive).

The Worth Pursuing Rubric as an editable Notion sub-page — tune the criteria to your beat.

A guided first-run setup that asks whether to connect a mail trigger, with a sensible mention-only fallback.