Welcome to the LCA Press Room

The press room in 1944 ... looking not so different from 2009

Upholding the First Amendment

This website provides information about the Legislative Correspondents Association, the group of news reporters assigned to cover New York State government in Albany, New York.

The historic LCA Press Room is open to the public and is located on the third floor of the Capitol between the Senate and Assembly chambers. Visitors are asked to respect the fact it is a workplace and to refrain from removing press releases or other materials distributed on the Shelf for the use of LCA members. Please look at the Questions? FAQ section for additional contact information.

Since 1900, the LCA has produced an annual show and dinner with the governor as the guest of honor. The dinner began to honor Governor Theodore Roosevelt and has been held since then each spring without interruption.

The 2009 show was at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center on Saturday, April 18, with rebuttals by Gov. David Paterson, Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and Chris Callaghan.

Here is Bloomberg's rebuttal.



The 2010 LCA Show

The 111th LCA show will be held on Saturday, May 8, 2010. The rebuttal speakers have yet to be chosen.

For ticket information, please call 518.455.2388.

Comments about this website? Send an e-mail to the person responsible for it: Kyle Hughes -- khughes(at)nysnys.com

NYS Constitution, Article 1, §8

Freedom of speech and press

'Every citizen may freely speak, write and publish his or her sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press.'

Press Room Directory

LCA press corps, 1958

Legislative Correspondents Association
2009 Press Room Directory

* LCA OFFICERS: President: Brendan Scott, New York Post; 1st Vice President: Irene Jay Liu, Times Union; 2nd Vice President, Valerie Bauman, Associated Press; Secretary: James T. Madore, Newsday; Treasurer: Bill Hammond, Daily News.

* PRESS CONFERENCES are held in Room 130 in the Legislative Office Building. Anyone wishing to schedule this room should do so through press room supervisor Jean Gutbrodt (518) 455-2388

* NEWS RELEASES should be sent to the third-floor LCA Capitol Press Room (50 copies). Releases should be submitted as early as possible. Copy should be delivered in unfolded form. Multiple pages of a single release should be stapled together.

* MAILING ADDRESS:Legislative Correspondents Association, State Capitol, P.O. Box 7340, Albany, NY 12224.

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LCA press corps, 2007

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* NEWS ORGANIZATIONS *

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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Valerie Bauman 449-7131
Michael Hill 449-7131 h: 861-6792
Michael Gormley 449-7131 h: 885-3290 – fax: 426-2286

BLOOMBERG NEWS
Mike Quint 426-9921 h: 677-5732 mquint(at)bloomberg.net
fax: 426-9972

BNA
Gerald Silverman 399-8414 h: 399-8306
gsilverman(at)bna.com – fax: 399-8403

BUFFALO NEWS
Tom Precious 434-6365 h: 765-9099
tprecious(at)buffnews.com – fax: 449-7847

BUSINESS REVIEW (Albany)
Adam Sichko 640-8018 – fax: 640-6836

THE CAPITOL (Manhattan Media monthly newspaper)
Edward-Isaac Dovere 833-1216 eidovere(at)nycapitolnews.com
Andrew Hawkins 833-1216 ahawkins(at)nycapitolnews.com
fax: (212)268-2935

CAPITAL NEWS 9 - Time Warner tv
Erin Billups 641-7347 cell: 210-5816
erin.billups(at)capitaltonight.com

CUYLER NEWS SERVICE
Betty Flood 465-1745 h: 463-5169 EFMNEWS(at)aol.com
Muriel Gibbons 465-1745 h: 640-9720
Janet Sanders, Erin Zampariolo – fax 465-6849

DAILY NEWS
Kenneth Lovett 463-1089 h: 270-5930 cell: 225-1883 klnynews(at)aol.com
Bill Hammond 463-1089 cell: 858-2835 whammond(at)nydailynews.com
Liz Benjamin ebenjamin(at)nydailynews.com
Glenn Blain 463-1089

EMPIRE STATE REPORT
Stephen Acunto, Jr. 914-699-2020 ext. 119
sacunto(at)cinn.com, www.empirestatereport.com – fax: 914-699-2025

GANNETT NEWS SERVICE
Jay Gallagher 436-9781 h: 439-4501 jggannett(at)yahoo.com
Cara Matthews 436-9781 clmatthe(at)gannett.com
Joe Spector 436-9781
Jonathan Campbell 436-9781 – fax: 436-0130

NEW YORK LAW JOURNAL
Joel Stashenko 449-4255 – fax: 426-6036

NEW YORK MAGAZINE
Jacob Gershman 646-675-4797 jacob.gershman(at)gmail.com

NEW YORK NOW - public tv
Matt Ryan 880-3505 mryan(at)wmht.org

NEW YORK POST
Fredric Dicker 465-9623 cell: 424-2391 fud31(at)aol.com – fax: 465-9624
Brendan Scott 465-9623

NEW YORK TIMES
Danny Hakim x1 436-0757 hakim(at)nytimes.com
Nicholas Confessore 436-0757 x3 cell 917-941-4845 nconfess(at)nytimes.com
Jeremy Peters 436-0757 x2 jeremyp(at)nytimes.com

NEWSDAY
James Madore 465-2311 pager: 877-371-9838
james.madore(at)newsday.com - fax: 465-8083

NYS PUBLIC RADIO NETWORK
Karen De Witt 427-0866 kdewitt(at)wxxi.org – fax: 427-0869

NYSNYS NEWS / NYSNYS.COM
Kyle Hughes 432-0710 cell: 364-4395 khughes(at)nysnys.com
Stephen Trombley 432-1679 – fax: 432-0275
Press releases should be sent to: newsroom(at)nysnys.com

NY1 NEWS
Joshua Robin 434-8271 cell: 917-653-4045 NYC: 212-379-3338
fax: 434-8283

POLITICKER NY (NY Observer blog)
Jimmy Vielkind jimmy.vielkind(at)politickerny.com.

SYRACUSE PUBLIC RADIO/TV
Susan Arbetter cell: 852-5033 office: 315-453-2424 susan_arbetter (at) wcny.org

TIMES UNION (Albany)
Casey Seiler 454-5424
Jim Odato 454-5083 h: 381-6697 cell: 469-5532 jodato(at)timesunion.com
Rick Karlin 454-5758 h: 478-0309 rkarlin(at)timesunion.com
Irene Jay Liu 454-5081 - fax: 434-6148

WGY 810 (send mail to radio station)
Chuck Custer 452-4848 news(at)wgy.com – fax: 452-4859

WNYT (send mail to TV station)
1-800-999-9698 – fax: 434-0659

WRGB (send mail to TV station)
381-3781 – fax: 434-9889

(updated 1 September 2009)

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Questions?

Jean Gutbrodt is the New York State Senate employee who assists the membership of the LCA in the operation of the Capitol Press Room -- Room 363 located on the third floor on the Hudson River side of the New York State Capitol between the Senate and Assembly chambers. Jean Gutbrodtcan be reached at 518.455.2388 to schedule use of the LCA LOB press conference room or to answer general questions about press releases drop-offs.

Questions about all other matters should be directed to Brendan Scott, the New York Post reporter who is the LCA president. Brendan Scott can be reached at 518.465.9623 .

Play ball!

The LCA Softball Team, circa 1987

Top row from left: Bob Bellafiore, Marc Humbert, John McArdle,
Joel Stashenko, Darren Dopp, Gerry McLaughlin, Karen Roach,
Jon Ferziger, Steve Gossett, Dan Janison.

Bottom row from left: Hai Do, R.W. Groneman, Jon Salant,
Ken Goldfarb.

(Photo from LCA archives, 2007)