Contacting a journalist is not as difficult as it may seem. Most media outlets have an open policy towards readers, and the contact phone number or email address of the employee of interest can often be found in the publication number. Otherwise, the telephone and email address of the editorial office may be a sufficient clue.
Instruction manual
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Some publications publish direct telephone numbers of their employees and their email addresses directly in the printed version and on the website. For example, the Moscow newspaper “My District” acted in this way, where in each district version, on the page dedicated to a particular district, a mobile number and E-mail of the reporter responsible for filling it were placed.
If you know in which department the journalist of interest works (it’s easy to guess on the subject and genre of his publications), call the department (their phones are usually found in the publication’s output, and you can often find the positions of key employees of a newspaper or magazine).
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In extreme cases, if the only clue available is the editor’s contact phone number, call this number and ask how you can contact the journalist you are interested in. With a reporter or department editor, you are likely to be connected without problems. But with the chief editor and his deputies - rather in exceptional cases.
If you don’t care who to talk to and want to propose a topic for publication, voice it and you will be redirected to the profile department.
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You can also write to the editorial email address. If the subject of the letter is of interest to the editors, it will be handed over by affiliation and the journalist will contact you.
Do not forget to indicate your contacts in the letter, and formulate his subject in the appropriate field very accurately. This will increase the chances that the message will not be cut off by spam filters.
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The publicity of the profession and constant work with the word allows many journalists to keep their online diaries on social networks, for example, in the Live Journal.
A link to the blog of a famous journalist may be present on the website of the publication where he works.
If you have an account, you can add the journalist-blogger you are interested in as a friend, send him a personal message. And if your letter interests him, he will answer.
