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How to contact the Guardian and Observer

How to contact people and departments at the Guardian, Observer and the Guardian website.

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How to contact editorial departments and desks

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To contact any member of staff
Individual staff, whether editorial or commercial, can be contacted using this email format:

  • Firstname.lastname@theguardian.com

  • Firstname.lastname@observer.co.uk

Letters to the editor
Letters for publication in the Guardian or Observer should be sent to the addresses below. The sender’s full postal address and phone number are required, for verification only. For further guidance on submitting a letter, click here.
Guardian: guardian.letters@theguardian.com
Observer: observer.letters@observer.co.uk

Corrections and clarifications of editorial content – the readers’ editors
It is the policy of the Guardian and the Observer to correct significant editorial errors and handle editorial complaints as soon as possible. The readers’ editors are independent internal ombudsmen and can be contacted as follows:

Elisabeth Ribbans – Guardian global readers’ editor
guardian.readers@theguardian.com
Guardian readers’ editor page

observer.readers@observer.co.uk

Please note that queries about subscriptions, vouchers, reader offers, advertising, marketing and other non-editorial areas are not handled by the readers’ editors. These should be addressed to the relevant non-editorial departments. Story suggestions should also be sent to the relevant editorial departments.

Legal complaints
Legal complaints should be addressed to our Editorial Legal Services department at: Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, N1 9GU

Moderation
For more information about moderation and to contact the moderation team, please see this page.

The Guardian: editorial departments and desks

  • Arts desk: culture@theguardian.com or arts@theguardian.com

  • Books competitions and events: books@theguardian.com
    [This address is used for correspondence about online competitions, poetry workshops, and the like. For all other emails about books, see Review, below]

  • Business desk and financial staff: financial@theguardian.com

  • Consumer desk: money@theguardian.com

  • Consumer investigative column in weekly Money section consumer.champions@theguardian.com

  • Education desk: education@theguardian.com

  • Environment desk: please contact alan.evans@theguardian.com or bibi.vanderzee@theguardian.com

  • Feast: feast@theguardian.com

  • Film desk: culture@theguardian.com

  • Foreign news: see international

  • G2 (features) desk: features@theguardian.com

  • International news desk: international@theguardian.com

  • Letters: guardian.letters@theguardian.com

  • Media Guardian: media@theguardian.com

  • Money personal finance section: money@theguardian.com

  • Music: culture@theguardian.com

  • News desk, for UK national news: national@theguardian.com

  • Notes and queries: nq@theguardian.com

  • Obituaries desk: obituaries@theguardian.com

  • Opinion desk: opinion@theguardian.com

  • Personal finance: see Money and Consumer

  • Pictures: for emails from readers, agencies and PRs picturedesk@theguardian.com

  • Pictures: for advisories on film openings, PR openings and similar: photocalls@theguardian.com

  • Political staff: politics@theguardian.com

  • Review: review@theguardian.com

  • Society: society@theguardian.com

  • Space: space@theguardian.com

  • Sport desk: sport@theguardian.com

  • Technology desk: contacts can be found at Technology editorial team contacts

  • Travel desk: travel@theguardian.com

The Observer: editorial departments and desks

  • Business: financial@theguardian.com

  • Cash: cash@observer.co.uk

  • Consumer investigative column: your.problems@observer.co.uk

  • Food Monthly: food.monthly@observer.co.uk

  • Letters to the editor: observer.letters@observer.co.uk

  • Magazine: magazine@observer.co.uk

  • Review: review@observer.co.uk

  • Sport: sport@observer.co.uk

  • Travel: see Escape TV and radio review@observer.co.uk

Guardian Foundation

The Guardian Foundation is a charity whose purpose is to promote global press freedom and access to liberal journalism. They work directly with journalists, news organisations, audiences and educators, in schools and across communities to enable change.

Contact The Guardian Foundation here.
Twitter: @gdn_foundation

Report a suspected security vulnerability

If you spot a potential security vulnerability in the Guardian’s websites and apps, or suspicious Guardian emails/articles/endorsements, we’d be grateful to hear from you. Please send an email to icrt@theguardian.com with the subject line “Suspected security vulnerability”. If possible, include screenshots in your description. We may contact you for more details. Thanks for your help.

Please note we do not operate a bug bounty or responsible disclosure program at present.

Back issues and circulation

For information on ordering a back issue of the Guardian, click here.

If your query concerns UK distribution or retail supplies please contact business.information@theguardian.com. Otherwise all Customer Service queries must go through Customer Service, visit our Help centre for contact details for your region.

Advertisers, sponsorship and e-commerce

To find out more about all advertising and sponsorship opportunities in the Guardian and the Observer, and the Guardian website, click here.

If you have a question or concern about an advert on the site please report the problem here.

Press office

If you are a journalist with a media inquiry, please visit the press office page for the relevant contact information.

Freelance contributions

If you would like to contribute freelance content, please ensure you have read our Contributors’ guide.

Story pitches should be sent to the relevant editorial department, as listed above.

Any queries you have relating to the freelance charter, or other terms and conditions for the supply of content to GNM, should be directed to our Rights department at rights@theguardian.com

Employment and work experience

If you are interested in working for Guardian News and Media, please see our dedicated careers site at theguardian.com/workforus. All current work experience and internship schemes are detailed on this site under the “Other opportunities” heading.

Content distribution and syndication

For permission to re-publish Guardian or Observer content, or acquire a licence to re-distribute our content, please visit our Syndication website.

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