Reporter account
Best for repeat contributors who want a private account trail, badges, wallet support, and optional pseudonymous publishing.
Citizen newsroom intake
Submit a story to WRELAY.
Send a tip, article, field report, photo, audio note, or correction. WRELAY is built for citizen journalism with editorial review, source notes, safety tiers, and practical community value.
Sensitive report warning
WRELAY can reduce exposure, but no website can guarantee absolute anonymity. If a device, network, workplace, school, or household may be monitoring you, use a safer environment first and avoid sending details that identify you or your source unnecessarily.
Protected tip
Best for source-sensitive leads where editors need safety notes before asking for more detail or preparing publication.
Safety review
Best for stories involving retaliation, vulnerable people, workplace risk, corruption, violence, or legal exposure.
Article or tip
A written report, public record lead, correction request, or community update.
Photo evidence
Images with date, location context, consent notes, and source attribution.
Voice note
Interviews, narrated reports, eyewitness audio, or field notes from a public event.
Choose how your identity should be handled
Include one of these modes in your submission notes so editors do not guess about attribution or safety.
Public byline
Use when the reporter wants visible credit and can safely be named on the story.
Pseudonymous reporter
Use a WRELAY handle or WRELAD mask-style identity while editors keep private account context separate.
Anonymous source
Send a lead without a public byline. Editors should verify evidence and reduce identifying details before publication.
Editorial hold
Ask editors to review safety, legal risk, timing, and attribution before anything is prepared for publication.
Standard
Community updates, public meetings, corrections, routine tips, and low-risk field notes.
Source-sensitive
Stories where naming a person, exact place, employer, school, or timestamp could identify a source.
High-risk
Reports involving retaliation, violence, corruption, vulnerable people, active investigations, or coercive power.
Before you send
- Include what happened, where it happened, when it happened, and how you know.
- Do not submit private personal data unless there is clear public-interest value.
- Label opinion, firsthand witness notes, and verified facts separately.
- Tell us whether your name may be published or if a safety review is needed.
Source-protection checklist
- Remove unnecessary EXIF/location metadata from photos, screenshots, PDFs, and audio before uploading.
- Avoid using a work, school, shared, or monitored device for sensitive reports.
- Do not include private addresses, minor names, medical details, or precise safe-house locations unless essential.
- Separate what you saw from what you heard, what documents show, and what still needs confirmation.
- Tell editors if retaliation, job loss, domestic danger, immigration risk, or legal exposure is possible.
- If someone is in immediate danger, contact local emergency services before submitting to WRELAY.