How to Get Featured in Voyage New York
Voyage New York works differently from most titles in this category, and the difference is the reason to use it.
It is built around interviews. If you can talk about your own work clearly, you are most of the way there already.
What Voyage New York is
Voyage New York is a city title in a network of local publications that run the same format across different cities. The subject matter is local: creatives, founders, small business owners and independent practitioners in and around New York.
It is digital, permanently published and indexed by search engines. It is not a metro daily and is not trying to be one. The editorial mission sits closer to a community record than to news reporting, a running catalogue of people making things in a particular place.
The interview format
Most features are interviews. You answer a set of questions about yourself and your work, and the piece publishes largely in your own words, usually alongside photographs you supply.
That format changes what a good submission looks like. There is no reporter hunting for the angle on your behalf, which means the quality of the piece is decided almost entirely by the quality of your answers. A vague answer publishes as a vague answer.
It also means the voice is yours. For a lot of founders that is more useful than a third-party write-up, because prospects get to hear how you actually think rather than how a writer paraphrased you.
Length is on your side as well. The format gives you more room than a short news item would, so an answer that earns the space will generally get it.
What the questions are really for
The questions tend to cover the same ground: how you started, what the journey has been like, what you are proud of, what you want people to know about your work.
They look soft. They are not. Each one is an opening to say something specific, and the difference between a forgettable feature and a good one is whether you take it.
"It has not always been easy" is an answer everybody gives. "We priced the first two years wrong, and here is what changed when we fixed it" is an answer somebody remembers. Give the real detail: the decision, what it cost, what you would do differently. Nobody is going to make your story interesting on your behalf.
Who gets covered
Independent operators, mostly. Photographers, designers, therapists, chefs, studio owners, coaches, trades, small agencies and founders a few years in.
This is the part of the economy a national desk will never touch, and it is precisely why titles like this exist. If you run a genuinely local business and you have been waiting for a publication that covers people at your scale, this is one of them.
The bar is not a revenue figure or a funding round. It is whether there is something to say about what you do and how you came to do it, which is a different test and a fairer one.
If you are also weighing city business titles, New York Wire covers similar ground in a reported format rather than a question-and-answer one.
How to put yourself forward
You can approach the title directly at no cost and be considered on fit and editorial capacity, as anywhere else. Titles in this network are reachable by design, which is the whole point of them.
The managed route is the same door with the preparation done properly: we work out the angle, draft answers that actually say something, get the submission into the right shape, and you approve every word before it goes anywhere. Contributed and sponsored placements are common at this tier across the industry, and where a piece is paid for it should be labelled. Earned media and supplied content are different products, and it helps to know which one you are holding.
What the feature is worth
A permanent, searchable page about your work under a recognisable city title, in your own words, with photographs and links back to you. That is a real asset, and it keeps working every time somebody looks you up.
It also does something a reported profile cannot. Because the answers are yours, a prospect reading it hears your judgement and your priorities directly, which is worth a great deal if people hire you rather than your company.
It is not national significance and should never be sold as such. Describe it as an interview feature in a New York city publication and you are both accurate and fine. Stretch it and you invite the one question you do not want asked. If you want help placing this alongside other coverage, our services page sets out how we work.
Frequently asked questions
Do I have to do a live interview?
Usually not. The format is typically written questions and written answers, which gives you time to say something considered rather than something off the cuff.
Do I need professional photographs?
They help a great deal, because the format is visual. Good images of you and your work make a feature far stronger than stock photography ever will.
Does this suit a business with no press coverage yet?
Yes. It is one of the more approachable starting points for local founders and creatives, which is exactly what makes it useful as a first placement.