CONFIDENTIALITY & SOURCE PROTECTION:
We treat confidentiality seriously. Sources, interviewees, and questionnaire respondents determine the terms of their own participation, and those terms are honored throughout our research and in publication. We will not identify any respondents to questionaires or interviews unless they specifically authorize it.
RIGHT OF REPLY
Subjects of our reporting are given an opportunity to respond to specific findings before publication.
BACKGROUND SOURCES
Given the sensitive nature of some of our work, we welcome off-the-record and background sources, who can contact us via Signal or secure email.
VERIFICATION & DOCUMENTATION
All claims are corroborated against primary sources and, where possible, multiple independent records. We retain the documentation behind our reporting and always adhere to strict factchecking.
public records
Our work often relies on gathering records and data that are not widely available or scrutinized. We greatly appreciate the time of the staff who assist, and value tips for targeted requests.
fair play
We like to think of ourselves as old-school in our approach to stories. We do our research, and approach interviews and fact-gathering with a commitment to nuance and historical rigor, not axes to grind.