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For non-urgent and non-sensitive: observations, tips, public documents.
↳Our mail server stores your address and the technical headers of the message.
Contact the newsroom
Send a tip
We take documents, data, and observations from inside companies. Pick a channel by risk: the more sensitive the material, the further down the list.
Channels
By increasing protection. Each channel states what it sees about you.
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Encrypted messenger
MediumFor sensitive: internal correspondence, data that was not supposed to leak.
↳We see your number or handle. The messenger operator itself sees connection metadata.
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PGP encryption
HighFor what can cost you a job or your freedom. Nobody but the addressee reads the contents.
↳Contents are protected. The fact of correspondence is not: the server sees sender and recipient addresses.
What we accept
Documents and correspondence
Internal emails, contracts, investor decks, minutes. We verify authenticity before we publish anything.
Data and spreadsheets
Exports, reporting, address registries. We work from the source file, not a screenshot — a screenshot is almost impossible to verify.
Observation from inside
What you see as an employee: practices, decisions, circumstances. Even without a document this can start an investigation.
Technical find
A contract vulnerability, an oddity in fund movement, a mismatch in on-chain data. We pass it to our technical editor.
Not for this page
Investment advice
We neither give nor accept it
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What happens after you send
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Received
The material is read by the investigations editor. It is not forwarded to general chats and is not discussed outside the newsroom.
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We check
We look for independent confirmation. One source, however convincing, is not a basis for publication.
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We come back with questions
Usually there are many. That is not distrust — that is the job: we must be ready to defend every claim.
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We show the draft
You will see how the piece looks and how your information is reflected in it.
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We publish or we don’t
The decision stays with the newsroom. We do not hand over a veto — otherwise it is not journalism.
The fourth step is not approval. We show the draft so you can point out a factual error, not so we get a sign-off.
Promises and limits
What we guarantee
- We will not disclose your identity without written consent — not to partners, not to advertisers, not to the subjects of the piece.
- We will not pass your materials to third parties or use them outside editorial work.
- We will not ask you to explain how the document came into your possession. That is your business and your risk.
- We will tell you in advance if a court request arrives about the material — as far as the law allows.
What we cannot promise
Outlets that promise full anonymity are misleading you. Here is where our capabilities end.
- The mail server logs technical connection data. We do not control it entirely and cannot promise that those records do not exist.
- We are not responsible for what the messenger operator or your internet provider knows about you.
- If you are the only person with access to the document, the fact of publication itself may point to you. That is math, not our policy.
- We do not pay for information. A paid source loses value as a witness and as evidence.
Before you contact us
These four things protect you more reliably than any of our promises.
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Do not write from a work device and do not use a work email.
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Do not reach out from a corporate network and do not discuss this in a work messenger.
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Check the document for individual marks: watermarks, hidden identifiers, layout differences between copies.
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Do not tell colleagues that you contacted the press. The circle of people who know is the main source of leaks.
Short form
For non-urgent. We do not take files through the form — only via the channels above, where we control storage.
Not sure this is news?
Write one line. An editor will say whether the topic is worth pursuing. It costs nothing and commits you to nothing.