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Topic: "Dear Editor" and other NYTimes greetings...
| Author | Message |
| GGG | Posted – 4/1/2008 11:03:23 AM | show profile Glad to know I'm not the only one struggling to track down the editor(s) at the NYTimes Travel Section! An insider friend, who contributes quite regularly to the publication, suggested the most direct method is submitting to the slush pile at travelmail@nytimes.com. No need to address a particular editor. Fine. I give up. Off to the slush pile I go! But what is the proper greeting, if it's addressed to no one in particular? "Dear editor..." "To Whom It May Concern..." "Hey, you, in the Travel Section, read this pitch..." ------ Check out the blog! www.girlgoesglobal.com |
| reporterwriter | Posted – 4/1/2008 11:25:03 AM | show profile To find the name of an editor, have you tried calling? |
| GGG | Posted – 4/1/2008 11:43:45 AM | show profile I sure did (powered to do so after reading the "why are we afraid to call" posts!). But I still got the same answer: email it to the slush pile. So, I'm ready to toss my ideas into the Great Unknown of general email addresses and see if I get a nibble. The greeting, though, is where I'm hung up. I hate the sterile hospital feeling of a simple "Dear Mr./Ms. Editor." So impersonal. So boring. But (apparently) so necessary. ------ Check out the blog! www.girlgoesglobal.com |
| Decorama | Posted – 4/1/2008 11:49:44 AM | show profile Stuart Emmrich is Travel Editor at The New York Times. |
| peyton | Posted – 4/1/2008 11:59:27 AM | show profile i sent a pitch to that email about a year ago and got a nice response of no thanks. then i saw they ran the piece a few months later. anyways...yes, the address seems to work. although i just sent them something recently and have yet to hear back. i didn't address it to anyone in particular either time. |
| Village Gal | Posted – 4/1/2008 1:14:10 PM | show profile Never send anything addressed to dear editor. It is not hard to find out this information, and isn't this what reporters do? You dig for info. |
