\nEvery week, roughly 1,200 unsolicited submissions arrive at The New York Times via e-mail, fax and the U.S. Postal Service. All are vying for valuable space on the op-ed page, the page next to the editorial page that includes divergent views on timely topics.\n<\/p>\n
\nMany of the submissions are first-rate. Yet most get turned down simply because the newspaper just doesn’t have the space to print everything it would like. So what kinds of columns end up being chosen?\n<\/p>\n
\nThanks to Publicity Hound Christine Hohlbaum of Paunhausen, Germany for alerting us to this article written by David Shipley, the Times’ op-ed editor, who explains what they look for when deciding which columns get placement. To read it, you’ll have to sign up at the website<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n \nIf you want more tips, check out “How to Use Newspaper & Magazine Editorial Pages,” <\/a>a recording of a one-hour teleseminar I conducted a few years ago. I walk you step-by-step through all the opportunities for publicity on the editorial pages, and I even tell you how to meet with editors on the powerful editorial board at your newspaper and persuade them to support your cause. You can read more about it.\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Every week, roughly 1,200 unsolicited submissions arrive at The New York Times via e-mail, fax and the U.S. Postal Service. All are vying for valuable space on the op-ed page, the page next to the editorial page that includes divergent views on timely topics. Many of the submissions are first-rate. Yet most get turned down\u2026 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":3,"wds_primary_category":615,"footnotes":""},"categories":[615],"tags":[604],"class_list":{"0":"post-24926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-print-media","7":"tag-writing-articles","8":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40860,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24926\/revisions\/40860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}