The Staten Island News accepts both pitches for, and finished work covering, deep-dive analyses and human interest stories.

We also respectfully accept opinion pieces and editorials.

We also accept photos and video content  from our readers.

Your unique creative contributions are always welcome. A focus on Staten Island and NYC is most welcome.

Are you a credentialed expert? Great. We’d love to work with you. However, we really value your voice, irrespective of your academic or professional background.

If you represent an elected official or other community organization, we will print your own news announcements and updates using your own distinct  account on the platform.  (We encourage uploading on your own via remote login;  all submissions are reviewed before publication.)

We do not accept written news reports from readers, at all, however we will graciously accept your news tips and investigate and do a proper write-up ourselves, when warranted.

If you have a SI news or human interest story you would like us to report on, please contact us.

While we accept your opinions and creative and analytical work, we do not leverage our readers for news contributions.

Covering the news is a task reserved for our trained newsroom staff, and all news pieces pass from writers to editors in a defined and rigorous manner, our established newsroom workflow.

Please e-mail [email protected] or call (718) 889-1560 to learn more about submitting your content.

We will phone you back as soon as is possible, so please leave an e-mail or phone message.

If it’s a time-sensitive matter, please indicate this in your message. If e-mailing, include the words “TIME SENSITIVE” in the title.

We value YOUR voice.

It’s YOUR Island, after all, and StatenIslander.Org wants to extend the warmest welcome you to, as a reader, contributor, and commenter.

We at StatenIslander.Org New Agency are always happy to review submissions for inclusion in our electronic news platform. We value what your unique perspective brings, always.

Not all submissions will be approved. Content may not be immediately published, however, we will make an earnest attempt to do so in a timely manner, when the content is time-sensitive.

Please read about our Editorial Philosophy on the Staten Island News Newsroom Standards page for a clearer understanding of our policy and perspective.

As of August 18, 2019, no payment shall be remitted for any articles, editorials, stories, images, or videos. The copyright shall remain in the name of the contributor, however, contributor grants StatenIslander.Org unlimited rights to print, and re-print said content, either within our e-newspaper, or on any of our networked platforms.

All content must be owned by the contributor. That means that the photos and video must be your own, or have been licensed to you by the photographer or videographer. The same is true of content; you just be the original author, unless you have assumed either full copyright by written agreement, or have limited rights to re-publish.

Any content outside of copyright may be included for publication. That includes educational material, as well as any material that exists beyond the statutory time limit for copyright protection.

StatenIslander.Org, Staten Island News, and the Staten Islander News Organization  respect internationally copyright-protected material that may have been authored, or registered, in another country.

If material submitted is not your own, and you have written permission from the creator to include such material on StatenIslander.Org, photographs of the agreement may be sent to our newsroom.

Material submitted may be edited, for brevity or clarity. You, the contributor, must agree to these terms. Content may never be altered in such a way as to distort, or alter, the author’s intentions, or main ideas. We are not in the practice of manipulating others’ words, however, we do assert editorial control over what is published.

Submissions will be credited to the person submitting the content. If the person submitting, is doing so legally (see above), but is not the original content creator, both the contributor and original author or artist, shall be noted, in StatenIslander.Org.

To submit, please e-mail [email protected] or call (718) 889-1560 for more information.

For editorials, StatenIslander.org News Agency may choose to include a disclaimer, or notes with links to other sources of information. We reserve the right to include this, however, we also reserve the right to not necessarily do so. All Editorial Submissions are clearly marked on the News Platform.