US DG members: does your newspaper have a gardening column?

If so, would you please forward any/all of the following information to me (either here or via member mail):

Name of columnist/editor (if you're lucky enough to have several regular/contributing columnist, send 'em all!)
Their email address if you can find one (they often put them at the bottom of their columns.)
Your newspaper's name and city/state

If your newspaper relies on a syndicated columnist, that's fine to send along; (I'll take care of any duplicates.)

Hint: if you don't know whether your paper has a gardening column, check your Sunday "Home" or "Living" section - that's usually where you'll find them. Some newspapers run mid-week gardening columns, too.

I've got some year-end DG press stuff that needs to hit as many garden writers' desks as possible and PDQ, so your help is greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance ;o)

Here ya go:

The Fresno Bee, Fresno, CA

Contributing editor: Nzong Xiong nzong@fresnobee.com
Contributing editor: Joan Obra jobra@fresnobee.com

Sioux Falls Argus Leader, Sioux Falls, SD

The gardening column only runs thru Oct. so I posted the link for letters to the editor:

http://www.argusleader.com/editorial.shtml

Hope this helps.

Hi Terry, our local publication is adding a gardening column. The feature will be added in either January or February. I will be the regular/contributing columnist. Our distribution is relatively small in that I believe it to be a run of about 2,500 however you have another member here who is a professional journalist who freelances and regularly contributes gardening related articles on a regular basis to her publication which I believe has a distribution of 5x that of ours. I will call her and let her know where this thread is.

I am having some e-mail problems however you may contact me by member mail.

Dallas Morning News - Dallas - http://www.dallasnews.com/texasliving/housegarden/
Two Columnists:
H.S. Stevens - house&garden@dallasnews.com
Howard Garrett - howard@dallasnews.com

Thanks, y'all - please (please please) keep 'em coming. I've tackled *some* of the major metro papers, but I know I don't have them all.

And if your local paper is a smaller circulation, I still need the info - sometimes the smaller papers are more receptive to press releases than the big 'uns.

Oops, didn't realize this was a Press Release. If you believe a writer of a column for a small local paper might be of assistance, by all means contact me in the member mail.

Chicago Tribune
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/home/
Too many columnists to list
Letters to the editor- http://www.chicagotribune.com/services/site/chi-lettertotheeditor.customform
OR- 1-800-TRIBUNE (800.874.2863)

Chicago Sun Times
http://www.suntimes.com/index/
Here' an article she wrote for them- http://www.suntimes.com/output/garden/hos-news-bot28s.html
Julia Zanieski is plant information specialist at the Chicago Botanic Garden. She is a horticulturist and I believe her forte is native plants but I think they all pretty much are over at the Chicago Botanic Garden.
She can be reached at 847.835.5440

Detroit News/ Janet Macunovich/email:JMaxGarden@aol.com
Detroit News/Nancy Szerlag/email:szerlag@earthlink.net
Detroit Free Press/Marty Hair/email:hair@freepress.com
Heritage Newspapers/Paul Rodman/paulgrow@sbcglobal.net
Heritage Newspapers has a circulation of about 75,000.

The last one is me.

Paul

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Daily Herald 'Home and Garden' published on Sundays
E mail: News@dailyherald.com
They have a 'Home and Garden section" in the Sunday papers including an "Ask the Master Gardener column". gardener@dailyherald.com
This paper covers the NW and W suburbs of Chicago.

here's the e-mail for garden submissions to the washington post:

home@washpost.com

Gail Borelli
The Kansas City Star
home@kcstar.com

Terry,

SunHerald.com, Mississippi Gulf Coast has
a Saturday Home & Garden Mag. This section has local & syndicated columnist.
Local is Norman Winter.

Hope to see stories about DG's in our paper.

Honeybee~Bonnie

Terry Kramer c/o Times-Standard, P.O. Box 3580, Eureka, 95502.

http://www.times-standard.com/Stories/0,1413,127%257E2905%257E2543017,00.html

This is great - thank you all so much!! Keep 'em coming!

Kerrville Daily times: liz.kellar@dailytimes.com

West Kerr Current: wkcurrent@classicnet.net

WOAI (San Antonio TV and radio): NewsDesk@woai.com or JimForsyth@ClearChannel.com

So. Calif. , Orange County

Orange County Register - www.ocregister.com


Garden Columnist:

Cindy McNatt - Contact McNatt at cmcnatt@ocregister.com

Donna

Tampa Tribune
Home/gardening/pets
B.C. Manion
BManion@tampatrib.com

St. Pete Times
YVONNE SWANSON
JUDY STARK forward through
floridian@sptimes.com

The owner of our very small town paper is a neighbor of mine-I'm sure he can give me some names & emails.

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No new forum - just a press release/announcement that needs to be sent out. A BIG thank you to all that have contributed yours already. To everyone else - c'mon..please don't hesitate. I really do need all the garden writers (free-lance, extension service, regular columnist, syndicated, etc.) contacts I can get.

If your paper doesn't have a dedicated columnist, then the home (or living or lifestyle) section editor is usually the next best bet.

Baltimore Sun
Editor for Home/Living:

harry.merritt@baltsun.com

Sioux City Journal
Editor: Home and Living

email: Bruce.Miller@lee.net

Annapolis Capital - Annapolis, MD

All Gardening news items send to:

EScarano@capitalgazette.com

We're luck in that we have a very informative Gardening section....but only on Thursdays.
Here's the info I was able to gather from the paper's web site.

Seattle Post Intelligencer
NW Gardening/Lifstyles
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/nwgardens/

Ciscoe Morris:
Web: http://www.ciscoe.com
Email: ciscoe@ciscoe.com

Marty Wingate:
She can be contacted by mail in care of the P-I, 101 Elliott Ave. W., Seattle, WA 98119
e-mail: martywin@earthlink.net

Ann Lovejoy:
Free-lance garden and food writer, can be reached via mail:
9010 Miller Road N.E., Bainbridge Island, WA 98110

Marianne Binetti:
Web: http:// www.binettigarden.com
Ask Marianne, P.O. Box 872-PI, Enumclaw, WA 98022.
Selected questions will be addressed on the P-I garden pages each week.

Chris Smith:
Send questions to:
P.O. Box 4426, South Colby, WA 98384-0426

San Jose Mercury News
hhayes@mercurynews.com
Section Editor: Karen Casto (408) 920-5924.
Garden writer: Holly Hayes.
Fax: (408) 271-3786.

The Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, OK) has a Home & Garden section; usually on Thursdays.
Bill Geer (director of Oklahoma County Extension Services) has a Q & A article every week. Only info available for him is phone # 405-713-1125. However, Jon Denton seems to be the feature writer for the section - e-mail: jdenton@oklahoma.com; P.O. Box 25125, OKC 73125 or 405-475-3233.

We have two local papers. I only have the information for one of them. The Home and Garden section is in Thursdays paper. I the past they have stopped garden articles for the winter and concentrate on Homes. To date, they are still publishing garden articles. I'll try to find the information for the other paper.

The Times:

Features Editor: Pobert Blaszkiewicz
Email: blaszk@nwitimes.com

Columnist:
jeanstarr@comcast.net

We have the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Home and Garden section.
H&G@ajc.com.

Editor Michele Foust mfoust@ajc.com
Garden Writer Danny Flanders dflanders@ajc.com
Online producer Tiffany Black tmblack@ajc.com
Editorial asst. Vikki Conwell vconwell@ajc.com

Hope I got some good ones, couldn't find Erica Glasener or Martha Tate (best feature writers) this time :(

How about Walter Reeves, our Georgia Gardener has a TV & radio show and writes a column for the ajc?
walter_reeves.UM.A.160.39604@radio.wsbradio.com
webquestions@wsbradio.com

Excellent job (and please keep them coming!) Y'all are definitely coming up with contacts I have not and would not find myself.

(Violabird - you have some that I didn't get when I searched for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution- thank you!!!! And you'll be happy to know I was able to email both Ms. Glasner and Ms. Tate yesterday ;o)

Glad I could help Terry, wasn't that ajc site a pain?

Since alot of our folks never see check out this forum, why not post one of those stickys in a few different places pointing here?

heh, yeah our paper has a column.... we write it.

my wife actually does the writing, as I lack the time.

Shannon Pojedinec
Shannon@beantreesoap.com
Douglas Enterprise, Douglas Georgia

Here are some:
LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER
Fortune, Beverly bfortune@herald-leader.com
Lexington, Ky

The Ledger Independent
Maysville, Ky
betty.coutant@lee.net

These 2 are just small town papers don't really have a gardening section but they do put in garden articles etc.
Fleming Shopper
Flemingsburg, Ky
flemingshopper@kywirelesscollc.com

Flemingsburg Gazette
Flemingsburg, Ky
gazette@kywirelesscollc.com

Wichita Eagle
Wichita, Ks

Garden Columns- Annie Calovich

[e-mail:acalovich@wichitaeagle.com]

The Macon Telegraph www.macontelegraph.com
Garden writer Georgia Tasker gtasker@herald.com (not sure if staff)
Lifestyle writer Skippy Davis sdavis@macontel.com
Lifestyle editor Oby Brown obrown@macontel.com

More from Georgia, wow, I know why you asked for help!

Athens Banner-Herald
Guest columnist Frank Henning news@onlineathens.com

Savannah Morning News
garden writer Ed Poenicke SavannahNow.com

Augusta Chronicle (couldn't find a name)
http://augustachronicle.com/gardening/

and I found this page...
http://www.abyznewslinks.com/unitega.htm

Terry - maybe this is also what you're looking for as I noticed you said in another post extension agents. I get the Kansas Statue Extension service horticulture newsletter.

CDIPMAN@OZNET.KSU.EDU
Christy Dipman
Extension Horticulture Division
3601 Throckmorton Hall
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS 66506-5507
(785) 532-6173

Thanks again (and yes, keep 'em coming - who knew there were soooo many gardening columns in the U.S. alone?)

And langbr brings up a good point - if you are aware of gardening newsletters produced by your local extension service, that would be another excellent avenue.

Please keep the names coming - it's definitely helpful!

Just to keep you updated, I've sent out around 120 press releases to-date (around 30 to magazines, the rest to newspaper columnists/editors.) I suspect I'll send out nearly that many more by this time next week.

When I come up for air, I'll post a list of all the publications I've contacted, so you can keep your eyes peeled (pealed?) for "DG sightings" and we can start a thread for people to post to whenever they come across a mention of DG and/or PlantScout ;o)

OK. last one, lol.
Walter Reeves also puts out the "Gardening in Georgia" newsletter, connected to all extension services in GA. (He's our MAN, if you haven't noticed)
georgiagardener@yahoo.com

go get 'em Terry!

Although our paper doesn't have a real garden section, they do print garden related articles weekly. All letters go to editor@theparisnews.com

Here is the website...
www.theparisnews.com

I hope this helps

I found an on-line list of all Iowa newspapers. Do you want them all, Terry?

Terry -

There is a col. written by various horticulturalists. Editors' name is David Bock. Email address is davidbock@hawaiitribune-herald.com

Will get you those of the Honolulu Papers.