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7 Ways to Get Editors Emails By Carol Tice

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Generally, the marketing manager – or possibly a VP or director ofcommunications or marketing, at a bigger company – are best bets. If there is amarketing manager under the VP, probably the manager is still best.

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You can search on a company name here and turn up everyone whoworks there who has a profile. If you aren’t sure, consider InMailingthe most likely suspect or anyone you’re connected to through yournetwork and asking them for a referral to the right person.

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A search for “editor [publication name]” or “marketing manager[company name]… or “contact marketing manager at [publicationname]” or “email editor [publication name]” or some combination ofthese search terms. This will often turn up a name and email.

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We’ve already mentioned The Writer’s Market , MediaBistro’s “ How to Pitch ”guides, and the Wooden Horse magazine database . These all include editorcontact names in their guides – but beware, as editors change jobs frequently thesedays.

Be sure to double-check with a bit of online research to make sure the editor listedis still there.

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If it’s a local publication, you may be able to ask around and find aname.

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Increasingly, mastheads for a wide variety of editorial andcustom/company publications are available online, and even includeemail addresses right next to the editors’ names.

I recently had a writer complain to me that she couldn’t find the editor’s name atCostco Connection. To which I replied, “Really? Because it took me five secondsto find it on their online edition.” Even had the emails right there. Don’t let this beyou!

Marketing managers or communications managers often appear as the contact on press releases, so for businesses be sure to check the “news” tab of that company’swebsite to see if it yields a good contact.

D1 E>&))/= (+5 F#'4G('41Twitter’s search engine isn’t the greatest unless you already knowsomeone’s handle, but you can do a Google search for “editor[publication name] Twitter” for a shot at connecting with editors ormarketing managers there.

Also, since many editors are also writers for their publication, they may be tracked by MuckRack , a site that follows journalists on Twitter.

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