Show your work
Separate firsthand observation, documents, interviews, and analysis so readers can judge the evidence.
Trust standard
WRELAY reporting guidelines.
WRELAY welcomes citizen journalism, but public trust is the product. These guidelines keep reporting useful, fair, and safe enough to share across the WRELAD Universe.
Identify uncertainty
Use clear language when something is alleged, developing, disputed, or awaiting confirmation.
Protect vulnerable people
Avoid unnecessary exposure of minors, victims, private addresses, medical details, and safety-sensitive locations.
Minimize source exposure
Use pseudonyms, approximate locations, delayed timing, or editorial holds when exact details could identify a source or reporter.
Give right of reply
When reporting criticism or allegations, make a reasonable attempt to contact the person or institution involved.
Correct fast
Corrections should be visible, dated, and specific about what changed and why.
Publication review
Submissions may be edited for clarity, safety, grammar, headlines, source notes, legal risk, and placement. WRELAY can decline or remove posts that are unverifiable, unsafe, misleading, plagiarized, abusive, or outside the public-interest purpose of the platform.
Source protection standard