Dispatch · Independent Journalism
Independent voices, held to a public standard.
Dispatch is where independent journalists — not mass-media organizations — will publish source-linked civic reporting. It is a different shelf from News (Mass Media) on purpose: you should always know which kind of newsroom you are reading.
The evidence standard
The evidence ladder governs every story
Each factual assertion carries a tier, and a story's headline can never claim more certainty than its weakest load-bearing assertion. Five guesses and one fact do not make a documented story.
No accusation without a record
No story accuses a living, named person of wrongdoing on anything less than a documented primary record — a court filing, an inspector general report, an official adjudication — linked in the piece.
Facts are never paywalled
Factual reporting stays free for every reader, always. If premium products ever exist here, they can package analysis — never the facts themselves.
Corrections are public and permanent
Every correction is appended to the story it corrects, dated, with the original error preserved — never silently edited away.
Mandatory disclosures
Who funds you
Every contributor discloses how their work is funded — employer, sponsors, subscriptions, or self-funded.
Political affiliations — every party, same rule
Dispatch is open to independent journalists of every stripe — including those who report on behalf of Democratic, Republican, third-party, or independent audiences. The rule is identical for all of them: any affiliation with any political party, campaign, or advocacy organization is disclosed on every piece, in plain words. That includes any party or project connected to anyone involved with Outpost — no affiliation gets softer treatment than another's. Party advocacy itself is not published in this app at all; disclosure lets you read the reporting knowing exactly who is speaking.
Opinion is labeled opinion
Analysis and opinion are marked as such at the top of the piece, not discovered by the reader halfway through.
Primary-source document drops live at Declassified, which follows these same rules with one addition: it links official records only and never republishes or speculates.