Resources from the Presidential Op-eds Project
- Venues for Leveraging Presidents’ Influence Through Op-eds (Roland King, 9/17/14) A white paper written for members of the Public Relations Society of America’s Counselors to Higher Education Section.
- Where Did the Op-eds Appear? A rank-ordered list of all media outlets carrying one or more of the approximately 350 op-eds analyzed.
- Who’s Writing Those Op-eds? A list of every president in the database, highlighting those who with the highest number of op-eds in 2014.
How-to Guidance
- Tips for Aspiring Op-Ed Writers, New York Times column, August 25, 2017
- How to Write an Op-Ed Article (Duke)
- Ten Rules of Thumb for Op-Ed Writing, American Philosophical Association Blog, May 2016.
- How to Write an Opinion Essay and Why You Should Do It Now (PDF), Kappan Magazine, Sept. 2014. By Marybeth Gasman, professor of higher education at the University of Pennsylvania.
Submittal Information
- The OpEd Project: Submission information for @125 media outlets
- OpEd Project Seminars – Day-long programs on writing/placing op-eds
Spotlight: Background, Contacts, and Insights on Selected Media Carrying Op-eds
- The New York Times
- The Washington Post
- Huffington Post
- Forbes Magazine
- Bloomberg View
- Wall Street Journal
College Presidents Talk About “The Bully Pulpit”
- How openly political should college presidents be? (Iowa City Press-Citizen, July 27, 2016)
- College presidents speak out on whether to speak out (Chronicle, Oct. 2004)
- When Should a College President Use the Bully Pulpit? (Nan Keohane, Chronicle, Feb. 2003)
- Where Are College Presidents’ Voices on Important Public Issues? (Theodore Hesburgh, Chronicle, Feb. 2001)
