Op-Ed Contacts

Faculty and students are welcome to use these resources to publish op-eds and letters to the editor. 

Regional/State Media Outlets 

Contra Costa Times and Oakland Tribune
Main: 510.208.6300
Dan Hatfield, editorial page editor
925.977.8430, dhatfield@bayareanewsgroup.com 

Letters to the editor must be 250 words or less. My Word articles are limited to 550 words or less.

Press releases may be sent to ccnnewsrelease@bayareanewsgroup.com

KQED Public Radio "Perspectives "
The station runs daily listener commentaries of approximately 375 words, or 2 minutes of air time.

Send all submissions to Perspectives editor Mark Trautwein at mtrautwein@kqed.org. He can be reached at 415.553.2108. 

For information on submissions, click here.

For news tips and press releases, call the KQED News newsroom at 415.553.2361, or email assignmentdesk@kqed.org.

Los Angeles Times
Sue Horton, daily op-ed and Sunday opinion editor 
213.237.7968, sue.horton@latimes.com
Send op-eds to oped@latimes.com
For information on submissions, call 213.237.2121.

Blowback, the LA Times online-only response forum:blowback@latimes.com.

Info on letters to the editor here.

For press releases, see here.

Sacramento Bee
Stuart Leavenworth, editorial page editor, 916.321.1185

To submit online, see here.

For longer Forum pieces, see here.

Bill Moore, letters to the editor, 916.321.1905. To submit online see here. 

San Francisco Chronicle

Lois Kazakoff, deputy editor/op-ed editor
415.777.6054, fax 415.543.7708
Lkazakoff@sfchronicle.com

For op-ed and letters to the editor guidelines, and to submit online, see here.

To write for the Sunday "Insight" (commentary) section, email Insight@sfchronicle.com

San Jose Mercury News
Barbara Marshman, editorial page editor, 408.920.5542 fax: 408.271.3792

For guidelines and submission form click here.

National Media

The New York Times
Trish Hall, op-ed editor
trishh@nytimkes.com
Submit opinion articles to oped@nytimes.com or fax to 212.556.4100.

Guidelines are here.

Submit letters to letters@nytimes.com or fax to 212.556.3622.

Guidelines for letters to the editor are here.

Wall Street Journal
 Mark Lasswell, edit.features@wsj.com

For submission and guidelines, see here.

Letters to the Editor, Timothy Lemmer, letters editor, wsj.ltrs@wsj.com

Washington Post
Op-eds should be e-mailed to oped@washpost.com or sent to online via this form.

Letters to the editor should be e-mailed to letters@washpost.com 

USA Today
USA TODAY accepts unsolicited opinion pieces for The Forum, its Op-Ed page. Columns typically run 650 to 750 words in length.

Those most likely to be accepted deal in an incisive, compelling way with issues now at the top of the news and, in the case of already well debated topics, present a new perspective. Op-eds dealing directly with specific pieces of legislation are not accepted.

Submissions should be sent to theforum@usatoday.com as pasted-in text rather than an attachment.