On Line Media & Addresses

LINKS

On Line Newspapers Plus Addresses

USA Papers

Australian Papers

British Papers

Canadian Papers

Today's Front Pages From Around the World

Email for Magazines & International Papers

Email Letters to Ed

Contacting US Congress

Congress

Irish & British PMs/Sec of State Addresses

Email Adds

WHO'S WHO

Don't hesitate to also use the phone if you can be effective that way! (But prepare what you want to say, before you call.) Never hesitate to go all the way to the top!

MANAGING EDITOR

The capo di capi, boss of bosses Both Chief Manager of Editors, Reporters
And the Main Decider of What Gets Printed
He wears two hats, he is a mangager of people and the News itself.

NEWS EDITOR

Decides What Gets Printed and What gets "chopped". Puts it all together. Editoral Policy and Articles

EDITOR OF THE EDITORIAL PAGE

Chief Editoral Writer. Puts it all together. Decides / Manages Editoral Page, Policy, Writers

EDITORS

Anything from very senior staffers of the Editoral Page to brand new intern Writers.
May be very powerful or very weak (?)

COPY EDITOR

Checks for accuracy in content, meaning, facts. Invents Titles for Letters to Editor.
Not a proof reader but passes on to proof readers.

OMBUDSMAN

A few papers have this position. He is there to take your complaints, suggestions.
He is supposed to "take the pulse" of the community for the paper.
He is there to listen to what the readership believes is good or bad about the paper.
You always want to contact him (or give him a "carbon" or "cc") but just don't stop there.
Don't be shy about going all the way to the top!
Some papers have a "Readers' Adviser. Similar.

Note: Some of these Jobs Overlap. Every Paper is different. Some have a Managining Editor but not a News Editor. Most have both though.

WARNINGS

A few papers publish an entirely different on line editon that has nothing to do with their printed edition. There may be useful information there about the printed edition, though.

Many papers allow for a true "Letters to the Editor" (for the printed edition) in their on-line edtion, but they also have a readers "letters" section for the on line edition as well, "letters" to their online "readers letters" will never go to the printed Letters column.

A few papers invite "email letters" in their printed and on-line edition for special sections or reader opinion sections, again, these are not true "letters to the editor"for publication there.

In short, read the fine print, make sure your letter goes to the right place. Letters to the Editor in the printed edition get seen by more people and have a greater influence on readers and staff. Letters to the on line edition, get seen by far less people but can be read anywhere in the world.

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