Press Contacts

Who's Who in Media

Types of Media

News Agencies

Magazines

Newspapers

Television Stations and Networks

Types of People

Movie Reviewers

Types of Online Resources

Online Movie Guides

News Agencies

Associated Press (AP)

Kits sent: Kiki

Bob Thomas

Film Critic

221 South Figueroa
3rd floor
Los Angeles, CA 90012

tel: (213) 626-1200

Kits sent: Kiki

Dolores Barclay

Arts & Entertainment Editor

50 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, N.Y. 10020

tel: (212) 621-1500 (main number)

tel: (206) 682-1812 (Seattle, WA number)

E-Mail: info@ap.org

URL: www.ap.org

URL: (contact) www.ap.org/pages/aptoday/ap_contact.html

Knight Ridder International

When I called KRI on 8/25/98, the woman who answered the phone did not recognize the names Chris Hewitt or Mal Vincent, and said that KRI owns newspapers, it does not directly employ film critics or other people who write for newspapers.

Chris Hewitt

Movie reviewer

Mal Vincent

Movie reviewer

1 Herald Plaza
Miami, FL 33132-1693

tel: +1-305-376-3800

URL: www.kri.com

United Press International

Kits sent: Kiki

Patrick Mason

201 North Figueroa St.
Suite 280
Los Angeles, CA 90012

tel: (213) 580-9898

fax: (213) 580-9880

1510 H Street, NW
Washington, DC 20005

tel: (202) 898-8000

fax: (202) 898-8057

E-Mail: (feedback) feedback@upi.com

E-Mail: (tips) tips@upi.com

URL: www.upi.com

URL: (contacts) www.upi.com/contacts

Magazines

A. Magazine: Inside Asian America

Category: for the "hip" Asian American demographic

Jeff Yang

Editor

Metro East Publications, Inc.
270 Lafayette Street, Suite 404
New York, NY 10012

Fax: 212-925-2896

Frequency: monthly

YOLK

Category: for the "hip" Asian American demographic

Frequency: monthly

George Toshio Johnston

Editor

P.O. Box 862130
Los Angeles, CA 90086-2130

Fax: 626.576.2174

E-Mail: yolkmag@aol.com

(The above address was confirmed by shopkeeper@mail.yolk.com on 28 Aug 1998.)

E-Mail: info@YOLK.com

URL: www.yolk.com

Ladies' Home Journal

LHJ doesn't have a film critic, per se.

Category: women's magazine

Melina Gerosa

Entertainment Editor

125 Park Avenue, 20th Fl.
New York, NY 10017

tel: +1-212-455-1061 (Melina Gerosa)

fax: +1-212-455-1010 (Attn: Melina Gerosa)

tel: +1-800-374-4545 (corp HQ)

fax: +1-303-661-1894 (corp HQ)

E-Mail: LHJ@nyc.mdp.com

URL: www.lhj.com

Frequency: monthly

New Times Los Angeles

Kits sent: Kiki

Category: Arts & Entertainment magazine

Rick Barrs

Editor

1950 Sawtelle Blvd., Suite 200
Los Angeles, CA 90025

Fax: 310-478-9873

E-Mail: editor@newtimesla.com

Frequency: weekly

People Magazine (PEOPLE Weekly)

Kits sent: Kiki

Leah Rozen

Movie Critic

PEOPLE Weekly
Time & Life Building
Rockefeller Center,
New York, NY 10020

Fax: 212-522-0794

E-Mail: editor@people.com

Frequency: weekly

Rafu Shimpo

Kits sent: Kiki

Category: English/Japanese

259 S. Los Angeles St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Fax: 213-687-0737

Frequency: daily

Reader's Digest

Robert Perino

Art Editor

Reader's Digest Road
Pleasantville, NY 10570

tel: (914) 244-1000

Francis K. Lostys, Ellen Pawelczak

Senior Research Editors

(for "Laugh Lines":)
Reader's Digest
Box 100
Pleasantville, N.Y. 10572-0100

Frequency: monthly

URL: www.readersdigest.com

Time Magazine

Michael Krantz, Josh Quittner

Staff Writer

Time & Life Building
Rockefeller Center,
New York, NY 10020-1393

E-Mail: letters@time.com

Frequency: weekly

TV Guide

E-Mail: (feedback) feedback@newscorp.com

URL: www.tvguide.com

URL: www.tvguide.com/movies/onvideo

URL: (feedback) www.tvgen.com/tv/report.htm

Frequency: Weekly

Newspapers

The Chicago Sun-Times

Kits sent: Kiki

Roger Ebert

Film Critic

401 N. Wabash
Chicago, IL 60611

tel: (312) 321-3000

URL: www.suntimes.com

Frequency: daily

The Chicago Tribune

Kits sent: Kiki

Gene Siskel

Movie Critic

Michael Wilmington

Movie Critic

435 N. Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL 60611

tel: (312) 222-3232

E-Mail: MWilmington@tribune.com

URL: www.chicagotribune.com/interact

Frequency: daily

Los Angeles Times

Kits sent: Kiki

Susan King?

Times Staff Writer

Time Mirror Square
Los Angeles, CA 90053

(213) 237-5000

URL: www.latimes.com/HOME/TALK

San Francisco Chronicle

Kits sent: Kiki

Peter Stack

Chronicle Staff Critic

901 Mission St.
San Francisco, CA 94103

E-Mail: stackp@sfgate.com

URL: www.sfgate.com/chronicle

URL: (feedback) www.sfgate.com/chronicle/info/e-mail

The Spokesman-Review

Kits sent: Kiki

Dan Webster

Staff Writer

999 W. Riverside
Spokane, WA 99210

tel: +1-509-459-5511

tel: +1-509-459-5511

The Times

Christopher Sheid

Times Correspondent (movie reviewer)

Joe Puchek

Features Editor

601 W. 45th Ave.
Munster, IN 46321

E-Mail puchek@howpubs.com

tel: (219) 933-3355 (Joe Puchek, call for story tips or comments)

tel: (800) 589-3221 (general number)

tel: (219) 933-3200 (general number)

Tri-City Herald

Kits sent: Kiki

Gary Wolcott

Movie Critic

107 N. Cascade St.
Kennewick, WA 99336

tel: +1-509-582-1500 (main office)

tel: +1-509-582-1515 (newsroom)

URL: www.tri-cityherald.com

USA Today

Kits sent: Kiki

Mike Clark

Film Critic

1000 Wilson Blvd
Arlington, VA 22229

tel: (800) 872-0001

URL: www.usatoday.com

URL: (feedback) survey.usatoday.com/cgi-bin/feedback.cgi

Television

ABC

ABC does not have a film critic on its staff.

77 West 66th Street
New York, NY 10023

URL: www.ABCNEWS.com
(national network office)

URL: www.abc.com/localstations

CNN

address?

URL: www.CNN.com

FOX

FOX Video released an English dub of Totoro in 1994.

Fox doesn't have a staff movie critic, per se.

Denise Guerrero, news desk

tel: +1-206-674-1305 ("Q13": Seattle, WA)

fax: +1-206-674-1713 ("Q13": Seattle, WA)

PBS

Jeffery Ryan?

URL: www.pbs.org

UPN - Chicago

address?

Movie Reviewers

Roger Ebert

(Gene Siskel wasn't as receptive to Totoro)

See also The Chicago Sun-Times

c/o WBBM-TV
630 N. McClurg Court
Chicago, IL 60611

Frequency: weekly TV show

Online Movie Guides

Internet Movie Database

URL: www.imdb.com

Sidewalk.com

Contacted about: Kiki

Dennis Dermody

URL: Seattle's New On video section by Dennis Dermody

URL: Sidewalk.com