Training for reporters — Kenya
Careful method, not shortcuts, for investigative work.
Iverion runs small, practical sessions on the lawful groundwork behind investigative reporting: fair approaches, sound evidence, and drafts that hold up.
7
Years running sessions
210+
Reporters trained
5,000
Word cap per draft review
8
Working days turnaround
What we do
Method that protects the story and the people in it.
Iverion works with reporters, editors and small newsrooms across Kenya on the parts of investigative work that are easy to rush: fair approaches for comment, evidence that matches the claims being made, and drafts that a lawyer would not need to unpick later.
- ✓ Grounded in Kenyan law and practice
- ✓ Small sessions, real drafts, no theory for its own sake
- ✓ Written materials you keep and reuse
Services
Three sessions, each built around one part of the process.
Right of Reply Practice
How to approach the people your work concerns, fairly and on record.
Learn more →Defamation Awareness
Writing carefully rather than fearfully, with worked Kenyan examples.
Learn more →From the desk
Notes on the practice.
Method
Setting a fair period for reply
What counts as reasonable notice before publication, and how to record it.
Legal groundwork
Fact, inference and the words between
Why the phrasing of a claim matters as much as the claim itself.
Editing
Reading a draft assertion by assertion
A simple way to check that every claim in a piece is carrying its own weight.
Our approach
Slower, on purpose.
- ✓ We work only with material gathered through lawful, transparent methods.
- ✓ Every session leaves you with something written you can keep using.
- ✓ We say plainly when a question needs a qualified advocate, not us.
If a piece of work is sitting unfinished because you're unsure of the next step, it's worth a short conversation.
Start a conversationWhat people say
From reporters who have sat in the sessions.
"The right of reply session gave me a record format I still use on every story. Simple and practical."
Aoko Wanjala
Freelance reporter, Kisumu
"Iverion's defamation session was the first time the law made sense as something to work with, not around."
Brendan Okoth
Editor, community newsroom
"The draft assessment caught two claims I hadn't properly sourced. Worth every shilling before publication."
Naliaka Cherop
Independent investigative writer
Questions
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