What are letters to the editor?
Letters to the editor usually address a recent event or issue covered by a newspaper. They provide people in the community with an opportunity to make their voice heard on current issues in the news. As such they tend to be widely read. You have a much better chance of getting your letter to the editor published than you do of having an op-ed piece (that is, a story length version of your opinion) printed or getting a story written about your concern.
