This is the second of four posts in which Spec Opinion explains how we receive, edit, and choose outside submissions for publication. Here, we explain how op-eds come to us.
The opinion page, unlike the rest of the paper, relies on content from contributors not on Spectator's staff. Though a group of columnists and an editorial board fill a portion of the page each day, we rely on writing from the community in the form of op-eds to fill the rest.
As an associate editor, it is my responsibility to find these op-eds each week. And, as you might imagine, it’s more difficult than assigning a staff writer for content. Though we’d like to have the reader base of the New York Times and the volume of unsolicited op-ed submissions such an audience would bring, the reality is that we rely on an op-ed recruitment process.
Here’s how it works:
