Letters to the Editor and Op-Eds (etc.)
Guidelines from the Sources

Our major Bay Area papers are just a click away!  To make sure your voice is heard, please check out your paper's guidelines before submitting your hard work.

We try to keep our info up to date, but media sources change rapidly.  If you find old or broken links, or if you'd like to suggest a new link, please let us know.
 
 
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LOCAL NEWSPAPERS

Contra Costa Times  (Knight-Ridder Publications)

(Includes:  Contra Costa Times, San Ramon Valley Times, Valley Times, West County Times, Ledger Dispatch, Brentwood News, Contra Costa Sun and Contra Costa weeklies (Concord Transcript, Walnut Creek Journal, Pleasant Hill/Martinez Record and Solano Times)

Unsolicited Press Releases 
(Do not send to link below; use snail mail):

Contra Costa Times
2640 Shadelands Drive
Walnut Creek, CA   94598

Letters to the editor (for all Times papers — online — 
must send to one paper at a time):

Tel: (925) 935-2525
Fax: (925) 933-0239 or (925) 943-8362

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Tri-Valley Herald (ANG Newspapers)

Online Contact Page

Main Switchboard: (925) 734-8600
News: (925) 416-4822
News Fax: 925) 416-4850

Mailing Address (Mail Letters to the Editor here)
The Herald
P.O Box 10367
Pleasanton, CA 94588-0367

Street Address  (open weekdays, 8:00am-5:00pm)
4770 Willow Road
Pleasanton, CA 94588

Al Pacciorini, Editor
Tel: (925) 416-4757 
Fax: (925) 416-4850

Submit news articles to:

Dave Boitano, City Editor
Tel: (925) 416-4887
Fax: (925) 416-4850

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GREATER BAY AREA NEWSPAPERS

Oakland Tribune  (ANG Newspapers)

P. Scott McKibben, President/Publisher
401 13th Street
Oakland, CA 94612
Tel: (510) 293-2300 

Main Switchboard 
(510) 208-6330 

NEWS ROOM
Phone: (510) 208-6450 
Fax: (510) 208-6477

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San Francisco Chronicle  (Hearst Publications)

Submission Guidelines
(Guidelines for Letters to the Editor, Op-Ed pieces for Open Forum,  First Person essays for Living, and Commentary pieces for Insight.  These are quite detailed and specific.  Please check them out before sending anything.)

Letters to the Editor (Email is preferred -- no attachments.  Email containing attachments is automatically deleted!)

Letters to the Editor
901 Mission St.
San Francisco, CA 94103
Fax: (415) 543-7708

Send your comments on news stories via email (once again, no attachments) to Main News.

Open Forum (Op-Eds) (Email is preferred -- no attachments.  Email containing attachments is automatically deleted!  Put "For Open Forum" in the Subject line.)

Yumi Wilson, Op-Ed Editor
Fax: (415) 543-7708.

Or send by regular post to:

Open Forum
901 Mission St.
San Francisco, CA 94103

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San Francisco Examiner
988 Market St.
San Francisco, CA 94102
Tel: (415) 359-2600
Fax: (415) 359-2766

Letters to the Editor

Online Contact Page

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ALTERNATIVE PRESS

East Bay Express  (New Times)

1335 Stanford Ave.
Emeryville, CA 94608
Tel: (510) 879-3700
Fax: (510) 601-0217
Email

Letters to the Editor (Guidelines and online form, or email)

Online Contact Page

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San Francisco Bay Guardian

Guardian Building 
520 Hampshire 
San Francisco, CA 94110

EDITORIAL, CIRCULATION, BUSINESS:
Tel: (415) 255-3100
Fax:  (415) 255-8762 or (415) 255-8955

EDITORIAL, (415) 255-3100
fax: (415)255-8762

Email Letters to the Editor to Letters.
Email political action alerts to  Alerts.
Submit Op-Eds for consideration to  Tim Redmond.

CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS
Complaints should be directed to Tricia Taborn, the assistant to the publisher. We'd prefer them in writing (see mailing address, above), but Tricia can also be reached by phone at (415) 255-3100.

If you're still not satisfied, contact the Minnesota News Council, a non-profit organization dedicated to fair news practices and reporting.  (The Bay Guardian suggests this step right on their website ... just one reason why we like them so much!)
 


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SF Weekly (New Times)

185 Berry, Lobby 4, Suite 3800
San Francisco, CA 94107
General Info: (415) 541-0700
To submit a story idea: (415) 536-8196
Email

Letters to the Editor (Guidelines and online form, or email)

Online Contact Page

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MEDIA WATCHDOGS

Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)

112 W. 27th Street
New York, NY 10001
Tel: (212) 633-6700 
Fax: (212) 727-7668
Email

FAIR's Media Activism Toolkit

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Minnesota News Council

12 S. Sixth Street, Suite 940
Minneapolis, MN 55402
Tel: 612-341-9357
Fax: 612-341-9358
Email

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