San Antonio Express-News Reprint Permission Guidelines

(These guidelines come from a larger document -  "How to handle public requests for information" that is posted on ENsite, the corporate intranet, to assist employees in providing good customer service when the public calls with requests.)

The San Antonio Express-News is copyrighted. Reprint permission must be obtained to make copies of articles, photos and graphics from the San Antonio Express-News, the San Antonio Light or from MySanAntonio.com. The Express-News does not own the copyright to everything that appears in the newspaper or mysa.com. We do not own the copyright to syndicated comics, columns or wire service articles. For those requests you must contact the syndicate for reprint permission.

Reprint requests MUST be submitted in writing. Do not transfer the public calls.  Ask them to submit their requests in writing.

Requests should include:

  1. headline and writer, artist or photographer
  2. date item appeared in the Express-News
  3. intended use
  4. number of reprints customer will be making
  5. customer's organization, business or publication
  6. a contact name, email address or phone number

Requests may be:

Emailed to kfoley@express-news.net or FAXED to (210) 250-3105  or Mailed to:

Kathy Foley, AME News Research
San Antonio Express-News
P.O. Box 2171
San Antonio, TX 78297-2171

Please allow 5 working days for reprint permission requests to be processed. Fees may be charged for licensing.

All reprints MUST run the article in full and the reprint must include the statement:
Copyright 2005 the San Antonio Express-News
Reprinted with permission.


Resources on this page were compiled for a panel discussion "Copyright Basics for Newsrooms: Managing Copyright and Leveraging Revenue in Your News Organization" at the annual conference of the News Division Special Libraries Assn.  in June 2005.  Panel members included Kathy Foley, San Antonio Express-News; Ginny Everett, Atlanta Journal Constitution; Peter Simmons, The New York Times; and Sharon Clairemont, Orange County Register.
To request updates or additions contact Kathy Foley.
Last Updated 6/4/2005