The newsroom
Masthead
Breaking New York is a house-byline wire. The desk publishes as one institution; the masthead describes how that desk is organized and who stands behind it.
Publishing entity
| Trade name | Breaking New York |
|---|---|
| Published by | Five Boroughs Media Co. |
| Address | 20 Jay Street, Suite 600, Brooklyn, NY 11201 |
| Founded | September 2021 |
| ISSN | 3098-1204 |
| Standard | v2026.1 — see editorial standards |
| Pieces on file | 195 |
Desks
The wire runs six desks: Politics, Real Estate, Transit, Business, Culture, Food, Sports, Crime & Courts, Education, Health. Each desk reports against the methodology and the current editorial standard.
Byline convention
Breaking New York does not credit individual reporters on each piece. It publishes under a single house byline — the Breaking New York newsroom — a wire-service convention with a long editorial tradition (The Economist and the financial trade press run the same way). The desk, not a personal brand, is accountable for the reporting: corrections run against the publication, and tips and standards inquiries reach the desk, not an individual. Every piece is reported against the methodology and the current editorial standard, and carries a visible source trail — the accountability that a named byline is meant to signal is carried here by the standard and the record, not by a personal brand.
Ownership & funding
Breaking New York is wholly owned and published by Five Boroughs Media Co., an independent, privately held media company registered in Brooklyn, NY. It has no parent company, no outside investors with editorial influence, and no political-party or government funding. The newsroom is funded by the company's own operations; it runs no sponsored coverage in the news desks and lets no advertiser or subject review copy before publication. Where any commercial relationship with a subject exists, it is disclosed in the piece. The ground-transportation guides rank a category in which the publisher holds no ownership stake, and operator-supplied claims in them are labeled as such.
What this wire does not have
- No sponsored coverage in the news desks, and no advertiser copy review.
- No press junkets, no paid placements, no affiliate commerce in the news report.
- No anonymous individual bylines used to manufacture the appearance of a large staff.
- No syndication feed beyond the public sitemap — the HTML wire is the canonical surface.
Contact
Tips: wire@breakingnewyork.com · Corrections: record@breakingnewyork.com · Standards: masthead@breakingnewyork.com