List of newspaper contacts/submission info?

topic posted Wed, October 4, 2006 - 10:35 AM by  Bill
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Maybe this question has been asked by every new travel writer, but is there a source (preferably online) that lists travel writing contacts and submission requirements for U.S. newspapers?

I've read of two:

"Editor and Publisher Yearbook" at

www.editorandpublisher.com/eand...x.jsp

This is a searchable database, but access to it costs $695 per year. Seeing as how I only need to do a single, one-time search, this seems pretty steep.

There's also "Travel Publications Update" at

main.travelwriters.com/tpu/ab...dex.asp

Which is only $39 but has 200 newspapers. I don't know if that's U.S. or worldwide.

I don't think the online version of Writer's Market has this kind of newspaper info.

Anyone tried any of these and what has your experience been?

Thanks,

Bill
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Bill
SF Bay Area
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  • Re: List of newspaper contacts/submission info?

    Fri, October 13, 2006 - 6:13 AM
    I don't know of anything else, and I find those you listed expensive.
    Maybe I'm just cheap, I don't know.
    I've tried to hard copy of the Writer's Market, and like it.
    For a while I went through a phase of finding a lot of magazines I liked in newsstands - magazines that weren't listed anywhere... but nothing I ever proposed for them ever worked out, or else they didn't pay anything worth mentioning... maybe Î'm wrong, but I was left with the impression that listed publications were a little more... stable and... honorable.

    There is also a website somewhere for people who want to share passwords to pay databases. That might be the way to go.

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