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Does being published in Politico get your brand cited by AI?
The Machine Relations Index has not yet seen AI answer engines cite Politico in its 21,813 measured answer runs over 143 days of collection. Coverage there can still matter to readers; it is not yet what AI engines reach for on the buyer questions the Index measures.
How to get into Politico
How To Pitch POLITICO Magazine
Politico Magazine publishes original reporting and distinctive opinion journalism on the people, ideas and institutions that matter most in American politics and government, for a broad but well-informed audience. It says it is much less interested in garden-variety op-eds, especially on narrow subjects or with a limited shelf life. Politico's site-wide FAQ sends op-ed submissions to this pitch guide.
Email a completed draft or a brief pitch to [email protected], with your contact information and a few lines about yourself.
All articles are exclusive. Authors should pitch directly; the Magazine rarely takes submissions from a third party. Authors must disclose any potential conflicts of interest up front. What works: big swings at big subjects, deep dives on the forces shaping politics in a key state, timely original reporting of national importance, well-targeted book excerpts, profiles of major or emerging players, unique data or findings that challenge conventional wisdom, and smart media criticism. What doesn't: op-eds on committee hearings, obscure legislation or highly specific regulation, clichés, talking points, predictable partisan rants and random thoughts on politics. The Magazine says it will try to respond within the week.
Politico’s own pagePress releases
The Editorial section of Politico's contact page gives an address for press releases.
Email press releases to [email protected].
Not stated.
Politico’s own pageShare a news tip with POLITICO
Encrypted messaging channels for sending newsworthy information, documents or tips to Politico journalists anonymously. The contact page calls these confidential news tips.
Message Politico's tip number, 703-350-1754, on Signal, WhatsApp or Telegram. The page explains how each app differs, for example that WhatsApp keeps the phone numbers you chat with and the timestamps of chats, and that Telegram's stronger encryption needs its 'secret chat' feature.
Politico says no system is 100 percent secure and asks users to understand the differences between the apps and review their terms before using them.
Politico’s own page
Checked against Politico’s own pages on 2026-10-06.
Is a placement here worth pursuing?
It depends on the questions your buyers ask. Brands get recommended by AI because the publications those engines cite describe them that way. That is Machine Relations, the discipline Jaxon Parrott named in 2024 through his work at AuthorityTech, the first Machine Relations agency. The table above is what decides whether coverage in Politico moves your brand in AI answers at all: it moves where the publication is already cited for the question your buyer asks, and much less where it is not.
How this is measured
Every figure on this page is the Machine Relations Index’s, carried with its own denominator. The Index runs buyer questions against 0 answer engines and records which sources each answer cites. This release covers 2026-05-10 to 2026-10-06, 143 days of collection. A publication carries a published rank once it clears the Index's evidence floor of 10 observations across 7 collection dates; below it, the standing reads as still collecting. AuthorityTech does not compute these numbers. Machine Relations Index publishes them, release 2026-10-06, methodology mri_score_v2.0.