Now Voyager: New Nonprofit Magazine Launches to Revive International Reporting in US

In March 2026, former New Yorker journalists Hélène Werner and Nicolas Niarchos launched Now Voyager, a nonprofit magazine based in Chelsea, Manhattan, aimed at countering the decline of international journalism in the United States. The 16-person team operates on donations, subscriptions ($160/year), and ethically selected advertising. The second issue features an investigation by Jacob Kushner on a Chinese-language literary icon in Western Sahara and a report by Cameron Hudson from Khartoum, Sudan. The magazine's name is taken from a Walt Whitman poem. Werner, a former classical concert pianist and fact-checker at the New Yorker, and Niarchos, a reporter who has traveled to 40 countries, founded the publication to address the fragmentation of traditional media and the closure of foreign bureaus, such as the Washington Post's in early 2026. Now Voyager emphasizes long-form narrative, arts, photography, and gastronomy as bridges to global understanding. The founders send copies to the Capitol and the White House, hoping to influence American perspectives on the world.