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Whistleblowers and staff with grievances about their companies now have an online site to send anonymous tips and confidential information without fear of ever getting caught.

SafeHouse is a new site launched by The Wall Street Journal where sources can spill the beans on financial fraud or corporate misconduct in confidence.

Editors of the international daily newspaper will monitor the servers and control incoming material.

Sources can submit documents in multiple formats, from audio material to photographs and text, which they can do publicly or incognito.

Robert Thompson, editor-in-chief of Dow Jones & Company and managing editor of the Journal, said: 'The Wall Street Journal is the world's most trusted source of news, and SafeHouse will enable the collection of information and documents that could be used in the generation of trustworthy news stories.' 

The site invites anyone who has 'newsworthy contracts, correspondence, emails, financial records or databases from companies, government agencies or non-profits' to send them in.

Those users who wish to remain unidentifiable are invited to fill in an online form via a safeguarded channel.

The site reassures users, saying: 'Send documents to us using a special system built to be secure.'

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