Contact

Rhinoceros Media is small, accountable, and reachable. We answer every message that requires an answer. Below are all the ways to be in touch and to be part of what we are building.

Email

For general inquiries, partnerships, corrections, story ideas that aren't confidential tips, or anything else that doesn't fit a more specific channel: rhinoceroshello@proton.me.

If you are sending information that needs source protection, please use the tip line instead. The general inbox is not anonymous and we are not equipped to source-protect material that arrives there.

Send a tip

We accept confidential tips through two end-to-end encrypted channels: Proton Mail and Signal. We do not run a web form and we do not accept tips at named-person email addresses. Full details, addresses, and source-protection guidance.

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Volunteer

The work needs more hands than a small founding team. We welcome volunteers in:

• Records research. Help index public filings, log council packets, and transcribe documents. Most of the work behind a Rhinoceros brief is reading paper.
• Translation. Investigations should reach Spanish, Arabic, and other communities in mid-Michigan that English-only journalism leaves behind.
• Civic listening. Attend a council, commission, or board meeting in your neighborhood and report back what you saw.
• Distribution. Help carry zines, posters, and printed editions to the venues, neighborhoods, and partners where the work belongs.

Email us with the area you want to help with, and any relevant background. No formal application; just a clear message.

Join the cooperative

Rhinoceros Media is building toward a worker-owned cooperative. Full incorporation comes when a committed founding cohort coheres around the work. We are looking for the right people, not a long list of signatures.

If you want to be considered as a worker-owner, write to us with: who you are, what you would bring (skills, time, network, lived experience, or something else), and why this particular publication. We read every message and follow up with everyone who is a serious fit. If now is not the right time, we will say so honestly.

Start a cooperative

This is the priority. Rhinoceros Media is one node. We are building toward a Lansing-area cooperative network: a connected ecosystem of worker-owned, neighborhood-rooted enterprises that keep value local and govern themselves democratically. A bakery, a print shop, a child-care collective, a repair workshop, a translation service, a grocery, a credit union, another publication. Whatever the work is, the structure is the same.

If you are thinking about starting a cooperative in any sector in Lansing or mid-Michigan, we want to hear from you. We will share what we have learned: incorporation paths, governance documents, member agreements, and the practical work of running on cooperative principles. We will introduce you to others doing similar work locally and connect you to regional support networks.

Email us. The more co-ops in the area, the stronger every co-op gets.

Support the work

Donations open soon. If you would like to support Rhinoceros Media financially as a non-subscriber, write to us and we will let you know as soon as a donation channel is live. We will be transparent about how donor funds are used and disclosed.

The most direct way to support the work today is to subscribe or to share an investigation with someone who needs to read it.

Press and media

If you are a journalist, researcher, or producer looking to use, license, or reference work from Rhinoceros Media, email us. Briefs are licensed under terms that allow free reuse with attribution; some material (data sets, primary documents) carries additional terms. We are happy to coordinate.

Corrections

Find an error? Email us with the URL, the specific claim, and the correction. We publish corrections in place with a note at the top of the affected article and propagate them across every format the original claim appeared in. The full corrections framework is at Ethics.