Get your news and events seen, free
Nonprofits, churches, small businesses, artists and community groups: send us your event or announcement. We’ll turn it into a listing or short story for our website, our weekly newsletter and our social channels, even when we can’t be there in person.
Submit your event or newsHow the free Community PR Desk works
It takes a few minutes. We review every submission and publish the ones that serve our readers in New York and across the diaspora.
Send it in
Email the date, place, a short description, a link and one to three photos with the photo credit. Two weeks ahead is ideal.
We write it up
Our editors, with help from THT Media Lab’s AI tools, turn it into a clean listing or short story. A person reviews every word.
We share it
It runs on the website, in “Things to Do This Weekend,” in The Harlem Times Weekly and on our social channels.
You share and rate
Once your story runs, you share it and rate our service. Those are the two rules of the free desk; see them below.
The rules of the free Community PR Desk
The service is free because our community helps it grow. By submitting, you agree to:
- Share. Within 48 hours of your story running, share the link on at least one of your channels (social media, newsletter or website) and tag @HarlemTimesNews on X and @theharlemtimes on Instagram. We’ll share your post back.
- Rate. Rate the Community PR Desk from one to five stars, with a sentence about your experience, using the rating link we email you after publication. Please be honest: every rating helps us improve and helps others decide whether to use the service. With your permission, we may quote your rating on this page.
- Send what you own. Only send photos and text you have the right to share, with the photo credit.
Organizations that don’t share or rate may not be eligible for future free listings.
Held your event already? Send us your photos and a short recap within a week and we’ll consider a post-event story.
Need more? THT Media Lab services
For organizations that want a full campaign, THT Media Lab offers paid services built on 25 years of community publishing and AI-assisted tools.
Press releases
We write a professional release and send it one to one to our network of editors, partner newsrooms and community press contacts.
Event promotion
A preview listing, a social campaign, a newsletter spot and a post-event recap with photos, before and after your event.
AI consulting
Hands-on workshops and setup for small businesses, nonprofits and churches: using AI for marketing, events, writing and everyday admin.
Bigger campaigns? For national or international media relations, crisis communications or large launches beyond what THT Media Lab provides, we will connect you with an experienced, full-service public relations firm from our network, so your story is in the right hands at every size.
How we keep our news independent: free submissions are reviewed by our editors and not every submission is published. Paid services never guarantee news coverage, and anything paid for is clearly labeled as sponsored or partner content.
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