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If you believe something we published is wrong, this is the most important category of message we receive and we treat it as such. Please include the article title or web address, the specific passage you are questioning, and what you believe the correct position to be. If you can point us to the underlying source, that speeds things up considerably.

We will check the claim against the original material rather than against our own article. If we got it wrong, we will correct it and record what changed, following the process on our Corrections page. If we conclude the article was right, we will tell you why rather than simply declining.

Story tips and information

If you have information you believe is in the public interest, we want to hear about it. Useful tips usually include what happened, when, and how you came to know it. Documents, filings, data sets and transcripts are far more valuable to us than characterisations, because we can verify them.

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We cannot guarantee that a tip will become an article. Most do not, usually because we cannot independently verify the central claim to the standard set out on our Fact Checking page.

Press releases and announcements

You are welcome to send them, and we do read them. We should be honest about the odds: we publish very few stories that originate from a release, and when we do, we go to the underlying filing, product, study or document rather than reproducing the announcement. A release that links to the primary material is much more likely to be useful to us than one that does not.

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Commercial questions are handled separately from editorial, which is deliberate. Our Advertise page explains the formats available and the boundary we maintain between advertising and coverage. Sending a commercial enquiry to the editorial address will only slow it down.

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What we cannot help with

We are a news publication, not an agency or an intermediary. We cannot intervene in disputes with companies we have written about, arrange introductions, or provide legal, financial or medical advice. Where a story mentions an organisation, we are not able to pass messages to it on your behalf.