Contact the Media
1. Call talk radio. There are two talk radio stations in Atlantic and Cape May Counties– WIBG 1020AM (Atlantic City to Cherry Hill) and WOND 1400AM (Tuckerton to Cape May). 1020AM is online, http://www.wibg.com/listen5.html. 1400AM programming is simulcast on 1580AM in Hammonton, and streamed on the web at http://www.wond1400am.com/.
1400AM generally has local two way talk programs on public issues Mondays through Fridays from 6AM to Noon, and from 3PM to 6PM., Saturdays 7AM to 10AM and 1PM to 7PM, and Sunday Noon to 4PM. For details, click http://www.wond1400am.com/. To talk on the air, call 609-927-1100 from the Atlantic City area, 609-390-8300 from Cape May County, and #1400 toll free from any Verizon or Cingular cell phone.
1020AM generally has local and Christian programs. It broadcasts the Harry Hurley program Mondays through Fridays from 7AM to 11AM. To talk on the air, call 609-398-1020. For details, click www.harryhurley.com.
2. Publish a 750 word guest column “on local, regional, or state issues” or a “short” letter to the editor in the Press of Atlantic City, the leading daily newspaper in the Atlantic City-Cape May area. (The shorter the letter, the better the chance of being published.) Send your submissions to Voice of the People, The Press, 11 Devins Lane, Pleasantville, NJ 08232. Or send your column or letter by fax to 609-272-7224 or e-mail to letters@pressofac.com. Make sure you name, address, and phone number appears on your letter, so the Press can verify your identify. Only your name will appear on the letter, but the Press must be convinced that you are who you say you are. For more information, telephone Editorial Page Editor Carla Linz at 609-272-7266 or Associate Editorial Page Editor Jim Perskie at 609-272-7267.
3. Publish a short letter to the editor in a local weekly paper.
The local Current and Ocean City Gazette weekly newspapers are published by Catamaranmedia throughout throughout Atlantic and Cape May Counties. The paper is published every Wednesday. All submissions should be received before 9AM on Monday. Catamaran Media is located at 3129 Fire Road, Egg Harbor Township, NJ. The mailing address is P.O. Box 619, Northfield, NJ 08225. Submissions by FAX at 609-383-9072 or e-mail at current@catamaranmedia.com are preferred. The editor is James Fitzpatrick at 609-383-8994.
The Sentinal is also distributed every Wednesday in Northfield, Linwood, Somers Point, and Ocean City, and its deadline is also Monday morning. Send submissions to P.O. Box 635. Somers Point, NJ 08244 or e-mail to Sentinelmail@comcast.com. For more information, contact editor and publisher David Nahan at 609-399-5411.
The weekly papers also don’t publish letters unless they are convinced you are who you say you are. So make sure you put your address and phone number on your letter.
