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Contacting a journo

  • 10-10-2013 5:56pm
    #1
    dazey
    Registered Users Posts: 228 ✭✭


    I want to contact a journalist whom I admire, but I don't know how to go about it. I am hesitant to contact the publication they work for directly as I imagine they don't like handing out contact information, even if it is just a work email (perhaps I'm wrong here ...).

    Sometimes under articles an email address for the person who wrote it, but I can't find it. Any tips??


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  • #2
    echo beach
    Registered Users Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭echo beach


    Most journalists want to be contacted. They operate by building up contacts. It helps if you can give them even a snippet of information that might be of use to them. Leave a message where they work, try Facebook and Twitter.


  • #3
    vitani
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,824 ✭✭✭vitani


    If they write for a particular publication, it's often easy enough to figure out their email address. A lot of places go by firstname.secondname@workplace.ie or something similar. If you can know any of their employees emails, you can usually work out the form they use and try contacting your journalist that way.


  • #4
    dazey
    Registered Users Posts: 228 ✭✭dazey


    echo beach wrote: »
    Most journalists want to be contacted. They operate by building up contacts. It helps if you can give them even a snippet of information that might be of use to them. Leave a message where they work, try Facebook and Twitter.

    They are more a features writer, not an investigative journalist in a traditional sense, and I doubt any information I know would be of great use to them. But thank you


  • #5
    EileenG
    Registered Users Posts: 5,775 ✭✭✭EileenG


    Most journalists love being contacted. Ring the paper and ask them to put you through to them.


  • #6
    dazey
    Registered Users Posts: 228 ✭✭dazey


    EileenG wrote: »
    Most journalists love being contacted. Ring the paper and ask them to put you through to them.

    Yea. They are an occasional features writer, and there appearances in the paper have become more infrequent. I can't imagine they sit at a desk. But this seems like the best route, calling the publication. I'm sure journalists regularly get people fawning over them


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  • #7
    EileenG
    Registered Users Posts: 5,775 ✭✭✭EileenG


    dazey wrote: »
    Yea. They are an occasional features writer, and there appearances in the paper have become more infrequent. I can't imagine they sit at a desk. But this seems like the best route, calling the publication. I'm sure journalists regularly get people fawning over them

    No, they are regular journalists.

    Where do you think most stories come from? Journalists are not out pounding the streets, hoping to come across an armed robbery. They sit at a desk and ring people back.

    No, journos don't get many people fawning. They do get a lot of people ringing up to say, "I think your paper should so a story about..."


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