Advocate For All Books At These 12 Outlets

Writing an op-ed or a letter-to-the-editor is a great way to get your voice heard at leading newspapers, magazines, and select websites.  You not only can get your opinions published, you can use these vehicles to mention your book if it’s relevant to the topic you are sharing your views on.  But these media outlets can also be your vehicle to advocate for books, writers, and publishing.

What should you write about that would cover a relevant issue?

1.      Literacy

Showing support for more people to read more books.

2.      Bookstores

Championing support for local bookstores.

3.      Free Speech

Advocating that people support the First Amendment and protesting book bans.

4.      Author Rights

Speaking out for things writers need or want.

5.      Libraries

Supporting them financially.

You can write to the following 12 media outlets:

New York Times

Op-ed – Jim Dao, dao@nytimes.com; oped@nytimes.com

Letters – Tom Feyer, letters@nytimes.com Mary Drohan, drohan@nytimes.com.

Editorial – listing of editorial page writes by topic can be found here.

LA Times

Op-ed – Juliet Lapidos, juliet.lapidos@latimes.com; oped@latimes.com,

Letters– Paul Thornton, paul.thornton@latimes.com; magazine@latimes.com

The Hill (& Congress Blog)

Op-ed – Kelsey Rupp, krupp@thehill.com; opinion@thehill.com

Letters – letters@thehill.com

Politico

Op-ed - Stephen Heuser, The Agenda Editor, sheuser@politico.com.

USA Today

Op-ed – David Mastio, dmastio@usatoday.com; theforum@usatoday.com

Letters– Michelle Poblete, mpoblete@usatoday.com.

Wall Street Journal

Op-ed – Howard Dickman, howard.dickman@wsj.com; Kate Bachelder, kate.bachelder@wsj.com

Letters – Tim Lemmer, wsj.ltrs@wsj.com

Washington Post

Op-ed - Michael Larabee (main op-ed editor). larabeem@washpost.com; Adam Kushner, (Outlook + Post Everything editor), adam.kushner@washpost.com; Jamie Riley Kolsky (local opinions), jamie.rileykolsky@washpost.com

Letters –; Jamie Riley Kolsky jamie.rileykolsky@washpost.com; letters@washpost.com

Bloomberg View

David Shipley, djshipley@bloomberg.net; James Gibney, jgibney5@bloomberg.net; Mary Duenwald, mduenwald@bloomberg.net; oped@bloombert.net

Boston Globe

Op-ed – Marjorie Pritchard, m_pritchard@globe.com; oped@globe.com

Letters – Matt Bernstein, letters@globe.com

Chicago Tribune

Op-ed – Marcia Lythcott, mlythcott@tribune.com; Bruce Dold, bdold@chicagotribune.com 

Letters – Dodie Hofstetter, dhofstetter@tribune.com; ctc-tribletter@chicagotribune.com

Reuters

Allison Silver, allison.silver@thomsonreuters.com

Christian Science Monitor

Op-ed – Tessa Parmenter submission form (*currently only accepting energy-related voices)

Letters– letters@csps.com

Good luck in getting the word out for books -- for yours and everyone's.

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