Comments on: Contact Info for Every Media Company in the World

By: mimi

mimi — Fri, 02 May 2008 20:57:58 +0000

than you a million times!!
I will use this info for good and not evil.

By: Stefan Falke

Stefan Falke — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:41:57 +0000

great. love it. you are the man !!

By: Eric Hamilton

Eric Hamilton — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:21:28 +0000

Cool! I have been compiling a database for my own personal use, but I think that a Wiki is a fantastic idea for this.

By: dude

dude — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:57:09 +0000

Actually, I read somewhere a while back that LeBook tried to sue one of the other sourcebooks (I think it was Workbook). They claimed they had lifted contact information directly out of LeBook and could prove it because LeBook “seeded” their information with a few fake names (if the names turn up elsewhere, they know where the information came from).

The court found that listings are NOT protectable by copyright, since they are publicly available information. Although it’s not illegal to charge for public information, there’s nothing illegal about giving it away for free.

So, I must say, some industrious person who wants to do the entire photo community a favor could enter ALL of the info available (hint hint). I would, but unfortunately I barely have time to comment here, much less do any data entry.

The sourcebooks can still sell the information - it would be a lot of work to compile several thousand names from a Wiki into a printable spreadsheet and ensure their accuracy, and besides, they can still make money off the ads they sell to photographers.

By: Anonymouse

Anonymouse — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:11:17 +0000

I’m like all for the APE 30 and the APE Photography Annual.

PDN is like so freaking expensive man.

By: M. Scott Brauer

M. Scott Brauer — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:36:58 +0000

Looks great and can’t wait to see it fleshed out a bit (especially with international publications). I think a few things could make it more useful to both editors and photographers, though, especially more information about the publication. It’d be nice to have a short blurb about the nature of the magazine, what it publishes, where it’s located, and a link to the publication’s website so photographers can see what sort of work it publishes. That way, photographers would have a better idea whether or not to pitch to that magazine. I added a little info to the NYT Sunday Magazine page.

Something that would also be very helpful is anecdotal information from photographers about what approach worked best in contacting the publication.

I also couldn’t figure out a way to add a new section; perhaps it’d be good to add a section with links to similar resources. Sites like http://www.epuk.org/Resources/206/newspaper-email-addresses would be useful to have on file because it’s likely to be more accurate faster than this site as editors change (though that site has few personal addresses listed…). I’ve also found Workbook ( http://www.workbook.com/phonebook/ ) useful for verifying contacts; I don’t have a subscription, but by putting in an editor’s name I can verify that they’re still with the publication (it’s a little out of date, though; searching for Rob Haggart still brings up Men’s Journal).

Anyway, all that’s to say that I really hope this takes off.

By: Russell Kaye

Russell Kaye — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:06:43 +0000

Very Interesting - never messed with a wiki before; will you unlock the contents sidebar so we can add some stuff?

By: Thomas Pickard

Thomas Pickard — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:30:30 +0000

Okay - that’s one of the great things about this blog - getting a real PE’s perspective.

By: A Photo Editor

A Photo Editor — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:26:06 +0000

Honestly, the emails coming from the subscription services for the most part suck. I used to never answer that phone call where someone says do you hire freelancers? How many times a week? and the day I did my spam went up like 5 times. The personal emails photographers sent me were so much more relevant. Since it will take a lot of effort to make a huge list of emails from the wiki I think people will use it to send more personal emails.

@ Russell: Thanks for the good ideas. Now it will be your fault too.

By: Thomas Pickard

Thomas Pickard — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:14:47 +0000

I like the idea and concept…as a photographer.

I wonder though if PE’s, AD’s etc would be so keen on this? Sure, you have to pay for this info at present through subscription services or by doing your own leg work, but for PE’s and AD’s that surely must provide some barrier to an ever burgeoning inbox of emails?

Anyway, as a photographer, I love it. So well done.