Submit A Letter to the Editor
Letters to the Editor are some of the most frequently read parts of any newspaper and can help educate and mobilize members of your community.
For the best chance of having your letter published you should:
- pick a topic you are passionate about,
- provide a personal angle to something currently in the news, and
- follow the newspaper’s guidelines for word length and submission.
Click below for the contact information for some of the major newspapers throughout the Southeast.
Alabama
Florida
- Daytona Beach News-Journal
- El Nuevo Herald
- Florida Times Union (Jacksonville): send letters of less than 200 words to letters@jacksonville.com
- Florida Today
- Gainesville Sun
- Miami Herald
- Miami New Times
- Naples Daily News
- News-Press (Fort Myers)
- Ocala Star Banner
- Orlando Sentinel
- Palm Beach Post
- Pensacola News Journal
- Sarasota Herald-Tribune
- South Florida Sun Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale)
- Tallahassee Democrat
- Tampa Bay Times
Georgia
- Albany Herald
- Athens Banner Herald
- Atlanta Journal Constitution
- Augusta Chronicle
- Brunswick News
- Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
- Gainesville Times
- Gwinnett Daily Post
- Macon Telegraph
- Marietta Daily Journal
- Rome News-Tribune
- Savannah Morning News
- Tifton Gazette
Mississippi
North Carolina
- Asheville Citizen Times
- Charlotte Observer
- Fayetteville Observer
- Herald Sun (Durham)
- The Indy (Raleigh-Cary-Durham-Chapel Hill)
- Mountain Xpress (Asheville)
- News & Observer (Raleigh)
- News & Record (Greensboro)
- Wilmington Star
- Winston-Salem Journal
- note – there are a number of Business Journals in the state (Charlotte, Greensboro, Triangle area) but they do not currently accept letters to the editor.
South Carolina
- Greenville News
- Island Packet (Hilton Head)
- Beaufort Gazette
- Post and Courier (Charleston) – email letter to letters@postandcourier.com
- Spartanburg Herald Journal
- The State (Columbia and statewide)
- Sun News (Myrtle Beach)
- Times & Democrat (Orangeburg)
- Florence Morning News
- Aiken Standard
- The Herald (Rock Hill)
Tennessee
- Bristol Herald Courier
- The Chattanoogan – email letter to news@chattanoogan.com
- Chattanooga Times-Free Press (see instructions in the left sidebar of the page)
- Commercial Appeal (Memphis)
- The Daily News Journal (Murfressboro)
- The Herald-Citizen (Cookeville – Upper Cumberland)
- Jackson Sun
- Johnson City Press
- Kingsport Times-News – email letter to news@timesnews.net
- Knoxville News-Sentinel
- Leaf Chronicle (Clarksville)
- The Memphis Flyer – email letter to letters@memphisflyer.com
- The Tennessean (Nashville & statewide)