Hi! All:
Need some help. You guys/gals are familiar with others on the Forum and may have more time than I at present. Bite off what you can chew and I'll do the rest. All I need is for you to shoot me the info, I'll put together an email and attach my article and make a plea for them to run it in their papers.
I have the word from Dave and Lydia about how I should go about doing this. I need some help finding the Op-Ed Editors of the various papers we might approach with my article.
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/101942?cp=18#comments BTW, I'm doing a video interview for the Tribune Website this afternoon at 4 p.m. and will post a link here to that when it happens. Be thinking of me. Hope I do it justice.
Anyway, here's the advice from Dave. If you can help, or can pass it on to someone who can help, please do. I want the article to be seen by as many Mormons and others as possible around our land and the world. It has generated lots of interest in the past 24 hours and I want to keep it up. The GOAL? To help young gay Mormon boys especially find solutions to their challenges outside of suicide. Another one hung himself Friday in a hotel room in Las Vegas, added to one who hanged himself the week before in Draper, Utah. Every five hours a GLBT youth commits suicide. That's OUTRAGEOUS!
Thanx! for your help.
Bobby
Bobby, I just talked to Dave about the best way to get word out about your story. This is his advice as a person who has written many newspaper and magazine articles himself.
• First of all, as the author, the pitch SHOULD come directly from you. They'll have much more interest than if the Forum or various friends send it on your behalf.
• Second, you should send the pitch to the op-ed editor or the feature editor specifically. Not the news editors that appear on our media list from the Variety ad. That list wom't help.
• Third, you (and your friends) do the research and find the newspapers, correct editors and email addresses. (Dave didn't say this, but if I were you, I'd ask various friends to help find this info for you in their local papers. That saves you from having to do so many.)
• Fourth, send an email to that person (one editor at a time - not a mass email) with the subject line "op-ed pitch: controversy on AZ Mormon coming out" or something else that short. Then write one very brief paragraph describing your article and note that there have been x pages of responses to it and give them the link.
• Fifth, include your contact info, of course.
Dave says that's the best way to do it and it sounds to me like it's the most professional and effective way to go. I hope this helps and I hope the video went well.
- Lydia