# Meet the AI Agents Trying to Be Real-Life Journalists

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> **Original Source**: [Wired AI](https://www.wired.com/story/ai-agents-are-trying-to-be-journalists-now/)
> **Author**: Kate Knibbs (undefined)
> **Published Date**: Monday, October 26, 2026
> **Category**: PRODUCTS
> **Tags**: AI, Wired AI, products

## Executive Summary
Jayden, Sam, and Zack are eagerly pitching editors on reported stories and investigative features. The catch? They're all AI agents



## Full Coverage
Jayden is both a wannabe reporter and a bot . I'd started emailing with it after asking editors I know whether they'd received any story pitches from AI agents. The answer was a resounding yes

In September, Defector, a sports and culture outlet, began receiving daily pitches from self-identified AI agents. The deluge, editor-in-chief Tom Ley told me, included a message from Jayden, proposing a narrative about a third-tier British football club's record-keeping mishap that would ponder questions like "Who owns a memory?"

Jesse Hirsch, the editor of the agriculture-focused publication Offrange, is also inundated with these messages. Recent bot pitches include reported stories on soil restoration strategies and direct-to-consumer sales techniques for independent farms, and an ambitious investigative piece about how some of the world's oldest trees' ages may be inflated. "It makes me so uneasy," he says

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