Communications

Strickland at news conference

In response to Mayor Jim Strickland's charge to be the most transparent and communicative administration in Memphis history, the Office of Communications was formed in January 2016 to serve as a one-stop communications shop for all City of Memphis divisions. The Office of Communications serves as a conduit for media coverage of the City and spearheads digital and social media communications.

Have questions?

If you're a member of the media with a request for information or an interview, e-mail Chief Communications Officer Ursula Madden and/or Media Affairs Manager Arlenia Cole.

Want to interview a member of the City Council? Reach out to the council office directly at 901.636.6786.

Have a question about the City's digital and social media presences? E-mail Deputy Communications Director Kyle Veazey.

Certain City divisions, though, have their own public information officers. Here are ways to contact them:

Fire: Wayne Cooke, wayne.cooke@memphistn.gov
Libraries: Arlenia Cole, arlenia.cole@memphistn.gov
Memphis Animal Services: Katie Pemberton, katie.pemberton@memphistn.gov
Memphis Light, Gas and Water: Gale Jones Carson, galecarson@mlgw.com
Police: Karen Rudolph and Louis Brownlee, pio@memphistn.gov

Sometimes, a question is better posed to one of the City's partner agencies or governments. Here is a list of some of those media contacts:

Downtown Memphis Commission: Penelope Huston, huston@downtownmemphis.com
Memphis Area Transit Authority: Nicole Lacey, nlacey@matatransit.com
Memphis Convention & Visitors Bureau: Kevin Kern, kevinkern@memphistravel.com

FAQs

Need some data? Check to see if what you're looking for is at data.memphistn.gov, our new data portal. If not, reach out to Ursula Madden and/or file a public records request.

Looking for news releases? They're collected in the What's New section of the main homepage.

Looking for...

...City employee salaries? They're here.
...recent audit reports? Visit Internal Auditing.
...recent City contracts? We have a database for that.
...requests for proposals (RFPs) or requests for qualifications (RFQs)? Look here.
...the monthly reports from the Sexual Assault Kit Task Force? Visit this page.
...current and recent City budgets? Pore over every page, if you dare, here.

Request public records

The Office of Communications also has oversight on public records requests. Use this portal to submit requests.

Document bank

Yes, we produce plenty of PDFs. We post some of the more useful and common ones in this searchable document bank. Even more, you can subscribe for an alert each time a new document is posted.