The Yonkers Ledger is an independent, not-for-profit, community news publication about all things in Yonkers, New York.
Table of Contents
- Our Organization
- Our Finances
- Our Diversity
- Our Brand
- Our Content
- Bylines
- Attribution and Republication
- General Ethics
- Corrections
- Our Audience
Our Organization
The Yonkers Ledger is owned by The Yonkers Ledger Incorporated. It is a registered 501(c)(3) organization operating in the state of New York. You may view all of our legal documents by clicking here. View our organizational structure on the “Our Team” page.
Directors of The Yonkers Ledger Incorporated
Eva Sanchez: CEO
Mark Parolisi: CFO
Erin Solari: Secretary
Business Address
1767 Central Park Ave Ste 194
Yonkers, New York 10710
914-361-9643
Our Finances
We publish our financial disclosures annually. These summarize our donations and our itemized operating costs. We never solicit donations from businesses or political campaigns. Funding is acquired through journalism grants and small-dollar individual donations.
The Directors and Officers of The Yonkers Ledger Incorporated are fully volunteer positions. We do not compensate for published content that is submitted to us. From time to time, we do commission content such as original photography.
We do not run advertising in any form. No display ads, no sponsored content*, and no content subscription services. Our news is produced and distributed for free. The Yonkers Ledger is an informational service for our community, not a traditional business.
View our full donor transparency policy by clicking here.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
As a news outlet in a majority-minority city, representation matters to us. Our board of directors reflects this commitment and our inclusive policy on content submissions bolsters these community voices. We promise to tell the stories of all Yonkers residents as we document the present-day disparities still faced by many in our city. We are proud to have contributors from groups like the NAACP, LGBTQ+ Advisory Board, Human Rights Commission, and other organizations support a more just society.
Style Guide
The logo and branding for The Yonkers Ledger is registered as a service mark in New York State under four categories. You may not use it without permission. If permitted, you can click here to find the Brand Style Guide for The Yonkers Ledger.
Our Content
Our community newsroom is committed to local news with a neutral voice. Our goal is to raise awareness of events, organizations, and processes that affect the lives of everyday residents in the city.
Editorial Independence Policy
We subscribe to standards of editorial independence adopted by the Institute for Nonprofit News.
Our organization retains full authority over editorial content to protect the best journalistic and business interests of our organization. We maintain a firewall between news coverage decisions and sources of all revenue. Acceptance of financial support does not constitute implied or actual endorsement of donors or their products, services or opinions.
We accept gifts, grants and sponsorships from individuals and organizations for the general support of our activities, but our news judgments are made independently and not on the basis of donor support.
Our organization may consider donations to support the coverage of particular topics, but our organization maintains editorial control of the coverage. We will cede no right of review or influence of editorial content, nor of unauthorized distribution of editorial content.
Our organization will make public all donors who give a total of $5,000 or more per year. We will accept anonymous donations for general support only if it is clear that sufficient safeguards have been put into place that the expenditure of that donation is made independently by our organization and in compliance with INN’s Membership Standards.
Political news
We are not legally permitted to make political endorsements. Any coverage of politics is informational. We publish press releases from candidates and elected officials–plainly marking them as such. Furthermore, we refrain from promoting any political fundraising activities. All subsequent reporting on these types of events is solely to raise awareness of the process. Lastly, many stories filed under the Politics category are co-authored by two or three contributors in an effort to produce balanced reporting.
Bylines
Some content may be published under an anonymized byline. Content published under the “Staff” byline represents a team-effort reporting to focus solely on the content and not the authors. Content published under the “Contributor” byline denotes stories submitted to us without a verified byline. Like all content, it is reviewed for accuracy and tone before publication. We believe that if the content is factual and stands on its own, the brand of The Yonkers Ledger supersedes any one particular writer’s name.
Attribution and Republishing
Some stories published here may be sourced from other news outlets. We maintain syndication partnerships with certain organizations to republish their content in full with a full citation preceding that content. In other cases, a story may be well-covered and The Yonkers Ledger will publish original content with inline citations as-needed.
We encourage the republishing of our content. As we are a not-for-profit with the mission of informing our community, the republishing and sharing of our content only furthers our mission. We do ask that our content not be adulterated or misattributed. A simple reference or link back to the original article is sufficient for attribution.
While our content is free to share, The Yonkers Ledger Incorporated does own the service mark for our brand. Please see our style guide for more information.
General Ethics
To follow this commitment to fairness and transparency, The Yonkers Ledger uses the SPJ Code of Ethics as its editorial guidelines. The content submitted to us by the public is reviewed for accuracy and tone. Content advocating a certain position may still be published in our Opinion section. Opinion content will always have a verified byline (i.e. no anonymized bylines).
If an author or any director of the organization is connected personally or financially to a story, that will be clearly disclosed in the article.
Corrections
We understand that our news is only as valuable as it is truthful. However, if we ever make a mistake, we promise to immediately correct it. While corrections will be clearly marked, clarifications and additional context may be added to publish content without such markings.
If you feel we have published something in error, please contact us here: https://www.theyonkersledger.com/contact-us/
Monthly Audience
| Social Media | Website | Newsletter |
|---|---|---|
| >100k users reached | >45k unique visitors | >2500 subscribers |
*Note that the FTC dictates guidelines for sponsored content summarized here: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2019/11/ftc-releases-advertising-disclosures-guidance-online-influencers
