Independent editorial newsroom · Brooklyn, New York
About the Newsroom
The people who report Elisha Yong Journal, the beats we hold ourselves to, and the working method behind everything we publish — technology, business, policy, sports, local New York stories, and world events.
Who we are
An independent journal, edited in Brooklyn
What we cover
Eight standing beats, from city politics and the New York council chamber to boardrooms, ballparks, and world events.
How to reach us
Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM. 354 E 31st St, Brooklyn, NY 11226.
Who is producing the coverage
A small working newsroom with a stubborn approach: report the beat in person, verify in the open, and correct visibly when we get something wrong.
Elisha Yong Journal is an independent editorial news blog covering technology, business, policy, sports, local New York stories, and world events with grounded reporting and clear editorial standards. That sentence is our whole remit — and it is also the standard a reader can hold us to. We are not a wire service reselling other people's copy, and we are not a platform hosting whatever arrives. Every piece that carries our masthead was assigned, reported, and edited by people whose names you can find on it.
The newsroom runs lean on purpose. A small team means fewer stories a day, but each one gets a desk edit before it publishes, a named reporter behind its reporting, and a dateline that says where the work was actually done. When a subject crosses beats — an AI pricing tool hitting franchise owners, a data-center fight landing in a city council hearing, a stadium decision with a policy tail — the editor who holds that beat owns the story end to end rather than passing it down a relay.
Readers approach an unfamiliar journal with a fair question: who exactly is writing this? The answer is in every dateline. Our reporters tag their stories with the beat and the place, and our editors sign their edits, because accountability is easier to verify when nobody hides behind the masthead.
The beats we hold
Eight desks, one chain
Every story is filed to one of eight standing sections. Nothing floats free of its neighbours — a policy hearing connects to the technology vendor in the room, a local council fight connects to a business already covered in the archive. Each row below leads to the section it names.
Technology
Infrastructure · AI · hardware
Reporting desk
Business
Franchises · markets · filings
Reporting desk
Policy
City hall · hearings · rules
Reporting desk
Sports
Postseason · stadiums · leagues
Reporting desk
Local New York
Brooklyn · boroughs · transit
Reporting desk
Society
People · gatherings · change
Reporting desk
Opinion
Arguments · columns · rebuttals
Editorial desk
World
Conflict · climate · elections
Reporting desk
The formal index of every section and what each one covers sits on the sections page. If you are trying to place a story you only half remember, the news archive runs the same struck rows with dates and beats, newest first.
How we work
Every piece is edited by a second pair of eyes before it runs
Filing is not publishing here. A reporter drafts, a desk editor reads the draft against its sources, and the story is either returned for more reporting or cleared to run. That step is why our coverage is slower than a feed and steadier than a rush — the aim is a story a reader can act on, not a story that arrives first.
Half of what we publish sits in the eastern boroughs, and a good deal of it starts the same way: a council meeting nobody streamed, a business changing its terms quietly, a stadium decision with costs buried eight pages into a packet. When you read a local New York story here, some of it first reached us through a reader who wrote in about a permit notice on their block or a storefront that closed without explanation. We follow up on those tips, and we say where the reporting came from.
Corrections, in the open
When we get something wrong, the correction runs at the foot of the story with the date it was added. Substantive changes to a piece — a revised figure, a corrected name, a reworked claim — are noted in the same place rather than quietly edited out.
Editorial standardsWhat we do not publish
No paid placements dressed as reporting, no unattributed claims about named people, no reader data sold onward. Sponsored material, where it ever appears, is labelled as such and written by someone other than the beat reporter whose name it sits beside.
Privacy policyHow the newsroom is built
A masthead only means something if you know what stands behind it. These are the working terms the newsroom runs on.
Eight
Standing beats, each with a named desk editor
Two
Reads on every draft before it publishes
Brooklyn
Where the desk sits, and where most of the local file is written
Open
Tips, corrections, and pitches always reach an editor
How a story runs, from tip to published page
Four steps stand between a tip and a published story, and a reader can follow every one of them.
Step one
The tip lands
A reader writes in, an editor takes the call, or a reporter hears it in the room. It reaches a desk that owns the beat instead of sitting in a shared inbox.
Step two
Report and check
The reporter gathers documents and finds someone with direct knowledge. Claims that only one source can support get labelled for what they are, not repeated as fact.
Step three
Desk edit
A second editor checks the draft against its sources, cuts what the reporting will not support, and sends it back for more work when something is missing.
Step four
Published, then watched
The story runs with a dateline, a beat tag, and the reporter's name. New facts that change it get appended to the same page rather than left stranded in a later piece.
About the newsroom, one more layer down
Torchys is the name readers most often arrive through — usually a technology or business story that started somewhere else and crossed two desks before it ran. That is the pattern to expect from us: a single beat file, then the second and third stories that follow it. If you want the desk to weigh in on something you are watching, write to the newsroom. We read everything that reaches us on a working day, though we cannot always reply to each note.
The desk
354 E 31st St, Brooklyn, NY 11226
Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM. Phone +1 833 292 3148. Email TheodoreMeyer@elishayong.com.
Come to the contact page for reachable lines and the fastest way to route a correction, a document, or a tip that belongs on a specific beat.
How to reach the newsroomQuestions readers actually send us
The four we field most often. If your question is not here, contact the newsroom and an editor will answer it.
Who writes Elisha Yong Journal?
A small staff of reporters and editors working out of a Brooklyn desk. Each story carries the name of the person who reported it and the desk that edited it, so you never have to guess which beat produced what you are reading. Freelance contributions are labelled on the page they appear on.
How do I send a tip you can actually work with?
Lead with what you saw or hold, then add the dates, the place, and anyone else who was there. Attach documents if you have them. An editor will route it to the desk that owns that beat, and we will say plainly if we cannot run with it. You choose how much you want attributed.
What happens when a story needs correcting?
The correction is appended to the story with the date, in plain words, and the change is described rather than hidden. If the error altered the story's meaning, that is said too. Send corrections to the newsroom phone or email above and they go straight to the editor on that beat.
Is any of the coverage sponsored?
Reporting and opinion are not sponsored, and no advertiser sees a story before it runs. If paid material ever appears, it is labelled at the top and kept out of the reporting beats, so you can tell the difference at a glance.
Read the desk before you read the story
The newsroom is one continuous file: the beats above, the standards we hold to, and the corrections that keep the record straight. Start anywhere on it — the archive is the fastest path in.
Where to start
The desk
354 E 31st St, Brooklyn, NY 11226, USA
Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
TheodoreMeyer@elishayong.com
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