Letter to the editor of a newspaper counts worth in spreading awareness between the society and the government about the issues concerning readers. They are sent to the editor via conventional or electronic email and are meant, for publication. Letters to the editor of a newspaper are mostly; published in the newspapers, news magazines, and sometimes in different periodicals as wells as on radio and television.
Subject matter:
It can cover endless topics concerning the issue faced by society. The most topics discussed include:
- Reinforcing or opposing a stance
- Addressing/commenting on a serious issue in the local society
- Correcting a misrepresentation/addressing point of view of someone else.
Effective letter guidelines:
- The letter should be concise, quick, clear, and short.
- Wind up your letter to the editor in 300 words.
- Explain all the important issues in the first paragraph.
- Explain why raising that issue is crucial.
- Penned down local society issue with local statics.
- Provide a piece of clear-cut evidence/solid proof.
- Sign it by including your full name, address, phone number, and email address. It’s not limited just to your signs, getting signs of some other society member will have a better impact.
A brief introduction of different types of topics, their format, style, content is given in a concise way to help you understand them deeply. The written examples of different topics; are provided below. Let’s have a look at the proper structure and formate of different letters to the editors.
Q: Write a letter to the Editor of a daily newspaper, complaining about a shortage of water supply in your area.
The Editor,
The Daily A.B.C
London
Dated: 23-4-2021
Dear Sir,
Respectfully I beg to state the problem of my area and request to publish in your newspaper. That, our locality is thickly populated and, being, water, and important source-of living, there must be special attention by the K.W.S.B., but regret to inform that there is no proper arrangement of water supply. Water supply pipelines are leaked at many places and the water flows on roads for which roads are also damaged and pressure of water is fallen.
I, therefore, request the authority of K.W.S.B, through this newspaper to take necessary action and ensure a regular supply of water.
For this, I shall remain, grateful
Yours faithfully
X, Y, Z
Q: Write a letter to the editor of a newspaper complaining about the frequent breakdown of electricity.
The Editor,
The Daily A.B.C
London
Dated: 23-4-2021
Dear Sir,
Respectfully I beg to state the problem of our area and request to publish in your daily newspaper. That, I reside at E.F.G Colony, Karachi. This area is badly facing a lot of problems “due to frequent breakdown of electric supply. The yearly examination is near at hand and the students cannot make preparation. The electrical goods are burnt due to frequent high voltage. I, therefore, request the authorities of K.E.S.C. through this newspaper, to take necessary action and ensure regular supply and normal voltage of electricity.
For this, I shall remain grateful.
Yours faithfully
X, Y, Z
Q: Write a letter to the editor of a newspaper informing him of the necessity of a playground in your area.
The Editor,
The Daily A.B.C
London
Dated: 23-4-2021
Dear Sir,
Most respectfully I beg to state that I am a resident of E.F.G. Colony and the adjacent Colonies are thickly populated. The Children of these areas are badly in need of a playground. Being there no such facility, the children are compelled to play on roads and lanes which is dangerous. Further, there is no such large empty space where we could offer Eid Prayers. I, therefore, request the K.M.C authority through the newspaper to arrange a football ground where the children could play and the elder could offer Eid Prayer. For this, I shall remain grateful.
Yours faithfully
X, Y, Z
Q: Write a letter to the editor of the newspaper and complaint about the dog biting case in your area.
The Editor,
The Daily A.B.C
London
Dated: 23-4-2021
Dear Sir,
Respectfully I beg to state about the problems of our area and request to publish in your daily newspaper. That, I reside in the E.F.G. area. There is an abundance of dogs in our area and many cases of dog biting have happened during the last two weeks The Metropolitan Corporation has not taken any action till now to kill the dogs. I, therefore, like to draw kind, attention, through your newspaper to take necessary action and to kill the dogs before they bring more loss to us.
For this, I shall remain grateful.
Yours faithfully
X, Y, Z
Q: Write a letter to the editor about the transport problems in your city.
The Editor,
The Daily A.B.C
London
Dated: 23-4-2021
Dear Sir,
Respectfully I beg to state about the transport problem of our city and request to please publish in your daily newspaper. That, nowadays there is a serious problem of transport in the city. Especially in the morning and evening, there is too much scarcity of transport. The school and college-going boys and girls and the service holders try to get chance so that they could reach in time and due to the fact, the buses are overloaded and serious accident is feared. I, therefore, request the Provincial Transport Authorities to take suitable step to solve the transport problems and the public could get bus easily.
For this, I shall remain grateful.
Yours faithfully
X, Y, Z
