Vetted access only. This shared workspace is for research data, evidence preservation, private files, and pre-publication collaboration. For newsroom-wide security coverage, use Protect Devices.
Shared workspace · Journalist edition
Shared managed workspaces for journalists, freelancers, and small newsrooms.
Secure Origin gives vetted journalists a private-first shared workspace to preserve web evidence, organize reporting data, collaborate on files, and use a defined peer-community tier. This is part of our Workspaces product line, not full newsroom security coverage, publishing infrastructure, or legal support.
Need broader newsroom protection?
Protect Devices covers endpoint visibility, posture, monitoring, patch exposure, alert triage, and monthly risk reporting for the tools your team already uses. View Protect Devices.
What this helps with
A practical shared workspace for reporting work before publication.
Use Secure Origin to keep research materials, structured trackers, and web captures in a managed shared workspace with quotas, backups, access control, onboarding, and a clear offboarding path. If your team needs its own isolated environment, use a Dedicated Workspace.
Preserve volatile web pages
Capture pages before they change, disappear, or become contested. Keep research copies attached to projects and investigations.
Web evidence · claims · timelines
Organize reporting data
Track FOIA and public records requests, people, companies, agencies, source status, documents, claims, and verification steps.
FOIAs · entities · source notes
Collaborate on files and drafts
Use private project folders and browser document editing for vetted teams working through pre-publication material.
Files · drafts · access reviews
Reporting workflow
Lead with the investigation, not the apps.
The workspace is scoped around how journalists actually work: preserving evidence, structuring research, reviewing documents, and keeping project data recoverable.
Capture
Browsertrix preserves web pages for replay and reference when sources, statements, listings, posts, or documents may change later.
Organize
Baserow Core supports structured trackers for FOIAs, sources, entities, claims, documents, story status, and verification steps.
Collaborate
A managed file workspace with browser document editing gives vetted teams private project folders for drafts and working files.
Offboard
Export and offboarding are part of the scope so work can move with the journalist, newsroom, funder, or legal partner when a project closes.
Optional peer community
Your private workspace first, with a defined peer tier when appropriate.
The shared journalist tier is not a collective and Secure Origin is not an editorial participant. The product is your private workspace. Eligible members may also opt into a vetted peer community for general collaboration, referrals, and project coordination.
Private by default
Your project files, trackers, captures, and drafts belong in your private workspace unless you intentionally share them.
Community is a separate tier
Peer access is opt-in, vetted, and intended for collaboration, introductions, and practical coordination among members.
Sensitive work stays separate
Source identities, confidential documents, and high-risk investigations should stay in your private space or move to a Dedicated Workspace.
What's included
Managed workspace operations, not unmanaged software access.
Each workspace is scoped around users, storage, capture/archive volume, Baserow workspaces, backup retention, onboarding, access reviews, support, and export needs.
Web capture and replay
Browsertrix for preserving and replaying pages tied to a reporting project or evidence file.
Structured reporting databases
Baserow Core workspaces for FOIA trackers, entity lists, source logs, document indexes, timelines, and verification status.
Managed file workspace
Private project folders with browser document editing, currently deployed with ownCloud 10 Community and ONLYOFFICE Docs Community.
Identity and access control
Workspace SSO/MFA, user onboarding, basic access review, and workspace access changes handled by Secure Origin.
Backups and operational care
Backup retention, monitoring, updates, recovery expectations, and clear support boundaries defined before launch.
Export and offboarding
A defined path to export files, database records, and workspace materials when a project ends or moves elsewhere.
Optional peer access
Eligible members can opt into a vetted peer community while keeping project materials private by default.
DocumentCloud-friendly pre-publication workspace, not public embeds
Vetted access no open public signup
Operated workspace quotas, backups, access control
DocumentCloud-friendly workflow
Keep using DocumentCloud for what it does well.
Keep using DocumentCloud for public documents, review, and embeds. Use Secure Origin for pre-publication workspace, web captures, and structured reporting databases.
Secure Origin workspace
Before publication
Preserve web evidence before it changes
Track FOIAs, entities, sources, claims, and verification status
Collaborate on drafts and working files in private folders
DocumentCloud
Public document workflow
Publish documents for readers
Use public review, annotations, embeds, and document pages
Support the public evidence layer around a finished story
Boundaries
What this is not.
This workspace has a narrow job: preserve research, organize reporting data, and support private collaboration before publication.
No open signup
Access is vetted before any workspace is created.
Not newsroom-wide security
For endpoint visibility, posture, monitoring, alert triage, and monthly risk reporting, use Protect Devices.
Not publishing hosting
This is not a CMS, newsletter, blog, or public website platform.
Not DocumentCloud replacement
Use DocumentCloud for public documents, embeds, annotations, and reader-facing evidence.
Not legal or editorial advice
We operate the workspace. You retain legal, editorial, and newsroom responsibility.
Not source intake by default
Tip lines, SecureDrop, or GlobaLeaks require separate scoping and ownership.
Pricing
Seat-aware pricing for shared workspaces.
Shared workspace plans include secure storage, backups, onboarding, and ongoing support. Solo pricing stays accessible for freelancers, while team and project plans bundle seats with simple add-on pricing when more collaborators are needed.
Yearly saves 2 months
Sponsored access
Eligible journalists or small public-interest projects may qualify for sponsored or reduced-cost access with funder, partner, or Secure Origin sponsorship.
For freelancers who want the shared workspace plus a base level of managed device monitoring and practical security guidance for one laptop or workstation.
Huntress-backed endpoint monitoring for one device
Basic device baseline check and alert escalation
Simple security guidance for accounts, contacts, and source workflows
No 24/7 support, helpdesk, device repair, full IR, or newsroom-wide coverage
This offer is for journalists, freelancers, small newsrooms, legal and media nonprofits, and teams supporting public-interest reporting. No open registration is available.
Application review for eligibility, project needs, and risk level
Sensitive projects can be scoped confidentially before deployment
Current implementation uses unmodified community software with upstream branding and notices retained
Time-sensitive project? Book a short intro call without sharing sensitive details in the form.
Need security coverage or a dedicated workspace instead?
For endpoint visibility, posture, monitoring, alert triage, and monthly risk reporting, use Protect Devices. For stronger isolation, private placement, or team-wide collaboration, use Dedicated Workspaces.