Investigative Method Training
Lawful methods for reporters who work with records, budgets and evidence.
Eldrion runs structured, in-person sessions for journalists based in Kenya, focused on handling public data responsibly and keeping an inquiry organised from first document to final draft.
3
Session tracks
75–100
Minutes per session
6
Weeks, longest track
KE
Based in Eldoret
What Eldrion Does
Method, not mystique.
Eldrion works with reporters who want to handle records with more care — datasets that get misread, budgets that get skimmed, evidence that gets scattered across a dozen folders by the time a story is due. We teach the discipline behind sound reporting, not shortcuts around it.
- ✓ Sessions built around your own beat and material
- ✓ Written frameworks and templates you keep afterward
- ✓ No shortcuts — only methods that hold up under scrutiny
Sessions
Three tracks, one working discipline.
Public Data Handling
Read published datasets for what they actually measure, and what they leave out.
Learn more ▸Budget & Expenditure Tracing
Follow public money through the documents that record its movement.
Learn more ▸Evidence Room Setup
Build an indexed, orderly store for a substantial inquiry that survives handover.
Learn more ▸From The Blog
Notes on the work.
Data Practice
When a Clean Dataset Still Misleads
Why the tidiest spreadsheet can still hide the shape of a story.
Public Finance
Reading a County Budget Line by Line
Where allocations quietly change shape between approval and spend.
Evidence Handling
The Index That Outlives the Reporter
Building a case file a colleague could pick up without you in the room.
Our Approach
Careful work, plainly explained.
- ✓ We work only with material you are lawfully entitled to hold
- ✓ Every method is one you could explain to an editor, unprompted
- ✓ Findings are stated with their limitations attached, not hidden
- ✓ Sessions are sized to fit around a working newsroom schedule
If a session sounds useful, we're glad to talk it through.
▸ Start a ConversationFrom Past Sessions
What reporters have said.
"The budget tracing session changed how I read every finance report I'm handed now. I stopped taking the summary page at face value."
Wanjiru Kamote
County Desk, Rift Valley
"My evidence folder used to be chaos by week three of any inquiry. The indexing structure alone was worth the sessions."
Otieno Barasa
Freelance Investigations
"Practical, unhurried, and specific to the dataset I brought in. Exactly what I needed before a difficult publication."
Achieng Nyabuto
Health & Data Reporting
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