Contribute to The Manhattan Business Review
If your work involves New York's small and mid-sized companies, wherever you are, we'd like to hear from you. Send news, suggest a Q&A, pitch an article, describe a neighborhood or share data. We cannot promise publication for every submission.
News and press releases
New York companies, business groups, lenders, advisers, public bodies and PR agencies can bring us announcements from any of the five boroughs and the wider region. These might concern an opening, a hire, a new lease, a funding round, a product, an acquisition or a move.
What to send
- Paste the announcement into your email, attach a Word file or provide a link to it.
- Specify its release date and time. Include any embargo restrictions.
- Include at least one image, either your own or one you have permission to share. Add captions and photographer credits. Show the place, work or people where possible, rather than a logo.
- Identify someone we can approach for details and provide their email address.
Subject line: News: your headline
Q&As
Put yourself or a colleague forward for an interview about running a business in New York. We welcome owners and founders, managing partners, lenders, brokers, accountants and lawyers, such as an owner on opening a second site.
What to send
- Give the proposed interviewee's name, job and organization.
- Describe their current work in two or three lines.
- Outline possible discussion topics, with three or four suggestions.
- Attach an up-to-date portrait, with permission to share it.
Interviews can take place over a phone or video call, or through emailed questions. We retain the interviewee's own language while shortening answers where needed. They confirm their quotes with us ahead of publication.
Subject line: Q&A: name, organization
Contributed articles
Bring practical knowledge from your own work with New York companies to an article bearing your name. Explain what small firms can borrow and on what terms, what a lease renewal teaches, a city rule affecting small employers or lessons from a decade of running a shop.
What to send
- Begin with a brief proposal. Explain the subject, what readers would learn and your relevant experience. Wait for agreement before sending the full article.
- The agreed article should contain 700 to 1,500 words of original work. It must be unpublished, including on your own website and social accounts.
- Keep the advice practical and support it with evidence. Identify the reports or datasets behind figures, and give names and locations for examples.
- The byline must identify an individual author, rather than an organization. Include that person's headshot and a biography of two or three sentences.
- Supply images with permission for sharing, plus a description and credit for every image.
- Disclose in one line any sales, funding or other benefit connecting you or your employer to something discussed in the article. That disclosure appears beneath the article.
Subject line: Article pitch: your topic
Neighborhood stories
Tell us about a high street, a market or a business district changing in any of the five boroughs. We welcome accounts from neighborhood groups, business improvement districts, merchants' associations and those funding the work.
What to send
- Identify the street or neighborhood and the businesses involved.
- Describe the difference the work has made, using available measurements. Examples include stores opened or reopened, empty storefronts filled, jobs added and changes in foot traffic.
- Give start or completion dates and identify those responsible for organizing, running and funding the work.
- Provide images you are authorized to share. Anyone pictured must have consented to their use.
A neighborhood account may lead to an invitation for someone involved to take part in a Q&A.
Subject line: Neighborhood: street, borough
Data and research
Share new measurements of how New York's small and mid-sized companies are doing: hiring, rents, lending, sales, openings or closures. They can come from research, surveys, regulatory work or monitoring you carry out.
What to send
- Provide access to the complete report or dataset through a link. A summary alone is insufficient.
- Briefly describe the collection method in one or two lines and specify the years represented.
- State when the findings become public and whether an embargo applies.
- Provide contact details for someone able to explain the research methods.
Subject line: Data: your subject
What we do not take
- Material intended to sell products or give a company exposure without a substantive business story.
- Unsupported assertions with no identifiable report, dataset or person behind them.
- Articles that have appeared elsewhere.
- Images shared without the necessary permission.
- Submissions unrelated to New York business.
How we edit
All accepted material may be shortened or revised for clarity and to follow our style. Headlines are ours to decide.
Before publication, we verify factual statements and figures. You may need to supply the underlying evidence for a number.
Authors of contributed articles receive a copy showing our edits ahead of publication.
Copyright remains with the author. Submitting an article grants The Manhattan Business Review permission to publish it.
Every submission receives our attention. We respond when a proposal is suitable to take forward.
Where to send it
Send your submission to editor@tmbusinessnyc.org. Choose the subject line above that matches your contribution so we can direct it appropriately. Keep each email to a single story or proposal.
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