Contact

What to send

• Story tips. The stranger and better documented, the better. A link to the original report, record, or filing is worth more to us than a summary, and we go back to the source before we write anything.
• Corrections. If something here is wrong, tell us what and where. You do not need to be polite about it and you do not need to prove it first, a pointer is enough for us to go and check.
• Rights and permissions. Requests to use our text or images, and complaints about material of yours appearing here. Say which URL and which part, and we will act on it rather than argue about it.
• Press, partnerships, and advertising. Reachable at the same address. We do not publish sponsored articles, so a pitch for one is a wasted email.

How we handle corrections

A correction is made in the article itself, not in a note somewhere else, and the piece says what changed. Where a story turns out to be wrong at its foundation rather than in a detail, we say that at the top of it and leave it up, because a quietly deleted article is a story that no one can check.

What to expect

A person reads every message. Tips and corrections get answered first and fastest. This is a small operation, so a reply may take a few days, and untargeted press releases will not get one at all.

Security problems have their own channel: the contact details in /.well-known/security.txt reach us the same way and tell you what we would like included in a report.