How we work.

• Everything we send is verifiable. Every figure in a note traces to a live source a reporter can check. No manufactured urgency, no embargo we cannot honor.
• We write to people on the record. Only the professional addresses a writer or their outlet has published. Every contact in our files carries its source.
• One follow-up, then we stop. Silence is an answer. We follow up once, briefly, and leave it there. Ask us to stop and we stop permanently.
• A person signs off. Nothing reaches a reporter without a named person standing behind it, and every reply is read and answered by one.

Thompson Alder draws on more than a decade in newsrooms, documentary film, and public-interest data work, since 2011. We keep the docket short so each engagement gets the attention it needs.

We do not publish a client list, and we do not name the writers we work with. If we have written to you, you are welcome to ask us anything, including exactly who we represent on the story at hand. You will get a straight answer.