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About Eldrion

Built by reporters who got tired of guessing.

A short account of why Eldrion exists and what it tries to do differently.

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Since 2016

Eldrion began as a set of informal notes passed between a few reporters in Eldoret who kept running into the same problems: a dataset cited without its caveats, a budget figure repeated without checking what it actually funded, an evidence file that made sense to one person and no one else.

Those notes turned into structured sessions, and the sessions turned into a small practice built around one idea — that the discipline behind a story matters as much as the story itself. We work only with lawfully obtained material, and every method we teach is one that would survive an editor asking "how do you know that?"

Today Eldrion runs three session tracks for reporters across Kenya, each built around the material a journalist is already working with rather than a hypothetical example.

What We Hold To

Three things we don't compromise on.

01

Lawful methods only

Every technique we teach works within the bounds of what a reporter is lawfully entitled to access and hold.

02

Caveats travel with the finding

A number without its limitations is not a finding yet. We teach reporters to carry both together.

03

Work that survives handover

An index or file structure should make sense to a colleague, not just to the person who built it.

The Team

Who leads the sessions.

Portrait of Naliaka Chepkoech

Naliaka Chepkoech

Lead, Data & Budget Practice

Portrait of Mwenda Kiptoo

Mwenda Kiptoo

Evidence & Records Facilitator

Portrait of Adhiambo Cherono

Adhiambo Cherono

Session Coordinator

Curious whether a session fits your work? We're happy to talk it through first.

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