* Gail Collins
Portand Oregonian
1320 S.W. Bioadway, Portand OR 97201
www.oregonlive.com
publiceditor@news.oregonian.com, newsroom@news.oregonian.com
* Sandy Rowe, Editor, srowe@news.oregonian.com
The Progressive
409 E. Main Street, Madison WIS 53703
(608) 257-4626
www.progressive.org
* Matthew Rotschild, Editor
Rolling Stone
1290 Avenue of the Americas, NY, NY 10104
(212) 484-1616, www.rollingstone.com
* Jann S. Wenner, Editor
Salon Magazine (on the Web)
www.salonmagazine.com, Letters@salonmagazine.com
Sacramento Bee
2100 Q Street, Sacramento CA 95816
(916) 321-1000, FAX (916) 326-9578
www.sacbee.com
San Diego Union-Tribune
350 Camino de La Reina, San Diego CA 92108
Letters: P.O. Box 12091, San Diego CA 92112
Fax (619) 293-1440
www.uniontrib.com, opinion@uniontrib.com
* Karin E. Winner, Editor
San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle
110 Fifth Street, San Francisco CA 94103
Mail letters: P.O. Box 7260, San Francisco CA 94120
Note: Chronicle and Examiner combine on weekends. They are separate papers, a.m. and p.m., during the week.
* Phil Bronstein, Exec. Editor
San Jose Mercury News
750 Ridder Park Drive, San Jose CA 95190
(408) 920-5700 (national news desk); FAX (800) 939-2329
www.sjmercury.com
* David M. Yarnold, Editor
Seattle Times
P.O. Box 70, Seattle WA 98111
www.seatletimes.com, opinion@seattletimes.com
Seatle Post Intelligencer: P.O. Box 1909, Seattle WA 98111
FAX: (206) 448-8184
editpage@seattle-pi.com
* Michael Fancher, Exec. Editor
Talk Magazine
152 West 57th Street, NY, NY 10019
Fax: (212) 641-3539, Letters to: T-mail@talkmagazine.com
www.talkmagazine.com
* Tina Brown, Chairman & Editor-in-Chief
* Howard Lalli, Managing Editor
Time Magazine
Time-Life Building, Rockefeller Center, New York NY 10020
* Margaret Carlson
* Michael Kinsley
USA Today
1000 Wilson Blvd., Arlington VA 22229
Phone: 800-828-0909 or 703-276-3400: Fax: 703-247-3108
E-mail: editor@usatoday.com
* David Mazarella, Editor-in-Chief
U.S. News & World Report
1050 Thomas Jefferson St., N.W., Washington DC 20007
Phone(202) 955-2000; Fax: 202-955-2049;
E-mail: letters@usnews.com
The Utne Reader
1624 Harmon Place, Minneapolis MN 55403
(612) 338-5040, www.utne.com, editor@utne.com
* Cathy Madison, Editor
Wall Street Journal
200 Liberty Street, NY, NY 10281
Phone: 212-416-2000;
Fax: 212-416-2658:
E-mail: editors@interactive.wsj.com
Washington Monthly
1611 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington DC 20009
www.washingtonmonthly.com, editors@washingtonmonthly.com
* Charles Peters, Editor
Washington Post
1150 15th Street, N.W., Washington DC 20071
Phone: 202-334-6000; Fax: 202-334-7502.
* David Broder
* Susan Schmidt
* E.J. Dionne
* Bob Woodward
* Katherine Graham (CEO, former publisher)
* William Raspberry
* Meg Greenfield
* Donald E. Graham, Publisher
* Richard Cohen
* Don Balz
* Leonard Downie (Editor, National Weekly Edition)
* Karen Deyoung (deyoungk@washpost.com)
* David Ignatius (Ignatiusd@washpost.com)
* Geneva Overholser, ombudsman (overholser@washpost.com)
Full list of e-mail addresses of WP reporters & editors
Washington Spectator
P.O. Box 90, Garrett Park, MD 20896
www.newslet.com/washingtonspectator
spectator@newslet.com
* Ben A. Franklin, Editor
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Broadcast News:
ABC News--Washington
1717 de Salles Street, N.W., Washington DC 20026.
(202) 222-7777. E-mail: netaudr@abc.com
ABC News--New York
47 W. 66 St., New York, NY 10023
Phone: (212) 456-7777
Fax: (212) 456-429
* Ted Koppel
* Cokie Roberts
* Sam Donaldson
* George Will
* Diane Sawyer
CBS News--Washington
2020 “M” Street, N.W., Washington DC 20036
202-457-4321, E-mail: realitycheck@cbsnews.com
* CBS Evening News with Dan Rather:
Phone: 212-975-3691 or 202-457-4385
Fax: 212-975-1893
* CBS This Morning:
Phone: 212-975-2824
Fax: 212-975-7133 or 212-975-2033
* 60 Minutes:
555 W. 57th St., New York, NY 10019-2985
Phone: 212-975-2006
Fax: 212-757-6975
* 60 Minutes II: Phone: 212-975-6200
CNBC
(get address Ft. Lee, NJ)
* Charles Grodin ("Charles Grodin Show")
* Geraldo Rivera
CNN/Washington Bureau
820 First Avenue, N.E., Washington DC 20002
Phone: 202-898-7900.
Fax: 202-898-7923.
E-mail: cnn.onair@cnn.com
* Frank Sesno, Bureau Chief
* Bruce Morton
* Wolf Blitzer
* Robert Novak
* Bob Franken
CNN/Atlanta
One CNN Center, Box 105366, Atlanta, GA 30348-5366
Phone: 404-827-1500; Fax: 404-681-6363; E-mail: on-air@turner.com
* Bernard Shaw
* Judy Woodruff
* Greta Van Susteren ("Burden of Proof")
* CNN Crossfire: Phone: 202-898-7655; Fax: 202-898-7611
* Larry King Live: Phone: 202-898-7690
Fax: 202-898-7686
National Public Radio
635 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington DC 20001-3753
202-414-2000; Fax: 202-414-3329
* Maura Liason
* Nina Totenberg (totn@npr.org)
* All Things Considered: Phone: 202-414-2110; E-mail: atc@npr.org
* NPR Morning Edition:
Phone: 202-414-2150;
Fax: 202-414-3329;
E-mail: morning@npr.org
* Counterspin (FAIR's Media Criticism aired on NPR)
130 W. 25 Street, New York, NY 10001
* Laura Flanders
* Janine Jackson
NBC News
30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York NY 10112
Phone: 212-664-4444; Fax: 212-664-5705
Today Show: today@news.nbc.com
Dateline: dateline@news.nbc.com
* NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw: Phone: 212-664-4971 or 202-885-4259; Fax: 202-362-2009; E-mail: nightly@nbc.com
* NBC News' Today: Phone: 212-664-4249 or 202-885-4231;
Fax: 212-664-4426; E-mail: today@nbc.com
* Dateline NBC: Phone: 212-664-7501; Fax: 212-664-7073;
E-mail: dateline@nbc.com
NBC News/Washington Bureau
4001 Nebraska Avenue, Washington DC 20016
Phone: 202-885-4200.
Fax: 202-362-2009
* Brian Williams
* Keith Olbermann (MSNBC “Big Show”)
* Andrea Mitchell
* Lisa Myers
PBS
1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314;
Phone: 703-739-5000; Fax: 703-739-0775
* The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer 3620 South 27th St., Arlington, VA 22206 Phone: 703-998-2150, newshour@pbs.org
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Writers, Gadflies & Pundits:
Jim Hightower (Radio Show)
P.O. Box 13516, Austin TX 78711
Molly Ivins
Ft. Worth Star-Telegram
1005 Congress Ave., Suite 920, Austin, TX 78701
(512) 476-8908;
E-mail: mollyivins@star-telegram.com
Link to her column website: http://www.startext.net/today/news/columnist/ivins2.htm
Marvin Kalb
Shorenstein Center for the Press
Harvard University, Cambridge MA
Michael Kinsley (Editor, Slate)
http://www.slate.com
Gene Lyons
Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Little Rock ARK
Lars-Eric Nelson
c/o Los Angeles Times Syndicate
Times Mirror Square, Los Angeles CA 90054
Thomas Oliphant/Boston Globe
c/o New York Times Syndication Special Features
122 E. 42 Street, New York, NY 10168
Norman Ornstein
American Enterprise Institute
1150 17th Street, N.W., Washington DC 20036
Carl Rowen
c/o North American Syndicate
235 E. 45th Street, New York NY 10017
Mark Shields
c/o Creators Syndicate
5777 W. Century Blvd, #700, Los Angeles CA 90045
Cynthia Tucker
c/o Universal Press Syndicate
4000 Main Street, 9th floor, Kansas City MO 64112
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Journalism Societies, Media Study & Watchdog Groups:
Adbusters Media Foundation
1243-dated West 7th Avenue, Vancouver BC V6H 1B7, Canada
American Society of Newspaper Editors
11690 Sunrise Valley Drive, #B, Reston VA 20190-1409
Annenberg School of Communications
University of Pennsylvania
3621 Walnut Street, Philadelphia PA 19104-6220
* Prof. Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Dean
* Ellen Hume
Berkeley Media Studies Group
2140 Shattuck Ave., #804, Berkeley CA 94704
Center for Media Education
1511 “K” Street, N.W., #518
Washington DC 20005
Center for Public Integrity
1634 “I” Street, N.W., #902, Washington DC 20006
Columbia Journalism Review
101 Jornalism Bldg., Columbia University
New York, NY 10027
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) (FAIR)
130 W. 25th Street, NY, NY 10001
(212 633-6700, FAX: (212) 727-7668
E-mail: fair@fair.org
Website: http://www.fair.org
* Jim Naureckas, Editor of "Extra!"
Institute for Alternative Journalism
77 Federal Street, 2nd floor, Sna Francisco, CA 94107
* Don Hazen, Director (co-author of “We the Media”)
Newspaper Guild
8611 Second Avenue, Silver Spring MD 20901
Pew Research Foundation for People & the Press
1875 “I” Street, N.W., #1110, Washington DC 20006
* Andy Kohut, Director
Tom Rosenstiel
Director, "Excellence in Journalism,"
Pew Research Foundation for People & the Press
1875 “I” Street, N.W., Washington DC 20006
Society of Professional Journalists
Steve Geiman, Director
16 South Jackson Street, Greencastle IN 46135
Federal Communications Commission
1919 "M" Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20554
Regularly check the FCC site at: http://www.fcc.gov
FCC members with party affiliation, date term ends, e-mail address:
* Chairman William E. Kennard: D, 2001, wkennard@fcc.gov, FAX (202) 418-2801
* Commissioner Susan Ness: D, 1999, sness@fcc.gov
* Commissioner Harold Furchtgott-Roth: R, 2000, hfurchtgott-roth@fcc.gov
* Commissioner Michael Powell: R, 2002, mpowell@fcc.gov
* Commissioner Gloria Tristani: D, 2003, jgtristani@fcc.gov
U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., 20515
U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C. 20510.
U.S. Capitol switchboard phone number: (202) 224-3121
The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington DC 20505
Pointers
Experience has shown that hard copy letters can be more effective than e-mail which is often used by media outlets as a polling device without significant response, if any. Hard copy letters are often taken more seriously because they indicate time, effort and expense, especially if marked "not for publication." a piece of paper can be passed around an office, taken to a meeting--and paper must be physically thrown away which takes a slightly more conscious effort than hitting a button to trash an electronic message or sending an automated reply.
If you have additional addresses/fax numbers, etc. to suggest, please e-mail us at: editor@AmericanReview.net
If you want e-mail, click on the following link for a comprehensive list of nearly 900 e-mail addresses of media outlets.
Writing "letters to the editor" is one thing. Letters to the editor come in by the thousands and are often not taken very seriously by news managers who assume you're not really talking to them but to readers. They are often viewed as readers' or viewers' personal opinions on issues. Having a letter appear in print may seem like impact but it's limited in terms of impact upon the editors/management of the news outlet itself. What you say to readers is ignored by news managers, even critiques of media practices. What you say to newsmakers themselves -- "not for publication" -- can hit home.
In writing directly to reporters, columnists and news managers, you are addressing how the media operate, what they cover, how they cover it, and how newswriters think. In this case, the issue is about the news media themselves.
Be cool, astute, professional, succinct, and persistent. Analyze rather than rage. One trick is to write a first draft that includes any insults or nasty comments you feel like slinging. Then edit the letter to take out the insults and keep your essential strong points made in a courteous manner in your final draft. Put yourself in the position of the intended recipient(s) and write a letter you would want to receive. This way you have a chance of getting your letter read by a an editor or news manager. Buy a roll of stamps and write once or twice a month if you can--to various media outlets. Be calmly persistent. It can make a difference.
We used to ask American Review readers to send us copies of their letters but our Media Discussion Center is in hiatus at the moment. Send copies to FAIR.
See A Few Steps Toward Media Activism
