Contact the newsroom

One address reaches the desk: [email protected].

Everything on this page arrives at that single mailbox, and it is read by the people who edit the site. There is no contact form here and no telephone desk. A form would mean a database of messages and a script on the page, and this edition is built as static pages that store nothing about a visit — the privacy page sets out exactly what the server keeps, which is the ordinary access log and nothing else.

Write in English if you can; if you cannot, write in your own language and say in one line what the message is about, and it will be read. Put the address of the page in the first line of any message about a specific report — the archive runs to hundreds of pages, and a headline alone is often ambiguous because several reports followed the same story on different days.

What to send where

• Corrections. Send the address of the page and the sentence that is wrong. See editorial standards for how we publish a correction.
• Tips. Tell us what you saw and how you know. Do not send material you are not free to send.
• Rights and images. If a photograph on this site is yours and the credit is wrong or missing, write to the same address with the page and we will fix the credit or take the image down.
• Contributions. Read write for us first — it says what we take and what we do not.

What makes a correction easy to act on

A useful correction has three parts: the address of the page, the sentence as it stands, and the source that shows what it should say. With those three, a correction can be checked and made the same day it is read. Without the third, it becomes an argument about who is right, and arguments take longer than facts. Where the source is a court filing, an agency notice or a company statement, name it and, if it is online, send the link rather than a summary.

Dates are the commonest confusion in a message about the archive. A figure that was correct on the day a report was published is not an error, and it is not changed later: every archive page carries a note under the text saying it is kept as filed. What does get corrected is a fact that was wrong when it was written — a misspelled name, a wrong number, a claim the source does not support.

What we cannot do

We do not remove a published report because it is unflattering, and we do not sell coverage in the news sections. Requests to add a link inside an existing story are declined. The only paid placements on this site are the ones the standards page describes.

This mailbox is ordinary email, which means it is not a secure channel: treat anything you send as readable in transit. Do not send documents you are not free to send, and do not send anything that would identify a source who has not agreed to be identified. If material needs protection that email cannot give it, say so in a first message and describe the subject in general terms rather than attaching the material.