Review your first pitch
Open the Pitches page, read a pitch and its sources, and approve or dismiss it.
A pitch is a scored story suggestion for one newsdesk. It is your decision point: approve it and Nuvelics creates a story from it, or dismiss it and nothing more happens.
You need the Member role or above to approve or dismiss. A Viewer can read pitches.
Find a pitch
- In the sidebar, open Pitches. The page lists ranked story pitches routed to your newsdesks.
- Use the View control to switch between List and Board. The board has one column per status: Draft, New, Approved and Dismissed.
- Choose a pitch to open it. It opens in a side panel over the list or board; the Open as page icon opens it as a full page in a new tab.
If the page says Nothing to review, no pitch has been written for your organization yet. That is normal on a new setup: pitches follow articles being collected and grouped into events. Check that your data source's articles are arriving under Articles, and that your newsdesk is Active.
Read the pitch
A pitch carries a Title, a Summary and Why it matters, plus a Score, its Newsdesk, its Topics and Locations, and the number of sources behind it. Under Contributing sources and Contributing articles you can open the reporting the pitch is built on, and View event takes you to the event the articles belong to. Read the sources before deciding; the pitch is a suggestion, and the articles are what it rests on.
Decide
In the side panel:
- Approve asks you to confirm: "Approving creates a story from this pitch and starts enrichment. This cannot be undone." Choose Approve again to confirm, or Cancel. Approving creates a story from the pitch and its sources and starts enrichment. An approved pitch stays approved.
- Dismiss acts at once, with no confirmation. The pitch moves to the Dismissed status, and the message that appears offers Undo. A dismissed pitch can be brought back later with Reopen, which returns it to New, or approved directly.
If you open the pitch as a full page instead, Approve and Dismiss ask first, with Approve this pitch? and Yes, approve, or Dismiss this pitch? and Yes, dismiss.
What you should see
After you approve in the side panel, a message reads "Approved “Your pitch title” — story created." with an Open story action, and the panel shows View story; either takes you to the new story. On the full page, a Pitch approved message appears and the story opens. Approve your first pitch now to continue.
You can also write a pitch yourself, from your own notes, links, files or library articles, with New pitch; see Pitches.
Next
Read your first story. For what each pitch status means and what moves a pitch between them, see Lifecycles.