Imagine receiving 300 emails a day, opening one or two of them, and deleting most of the rest. That is the inbox your media pitch is landing in.

Few people know that inbox better than Bryce Corbett. Across his career he has worked as a reporter, gossip columnist, TV producer and executive editor at some of Australia's biggest media outlets, from The Daily Telegraph and The Times in London to Sky News, The Australian Women's Weekly, The Australian Financial Review and 60 Minutes. He has also ...