Archive of reporter's notebooks

Our story

Built from years of watching good stories stall at the wrong moment.

A small practice devoted to the unglamorous groundwork that keeps investigative work standing.

Editor annotating a printed manuscript

Iverion started as a set of notes an editor kept passing around a Mombasa newsroom: a checklist for approaching sources fairly, a short guide to phrasing a claim so the evidence actually carries it. Reporters kept asking for the notes, so the notes became sessions.

We are not a law firm and we do not claim to be one. What we offer is the practical middle ground between "just publish it" and "get a lawyer for everything" — the working discipline that keeps most investigative pieces out of trouble in the first place.

Every session is built from real drafts and real correspondence, not textbook cases. We would rather spend ninety minutes on your actual story than an abstract one.

What guides us

Three things we hold to.

01

Fairness to the subject

Anyone named in a piece deserves a genuine chance to respond, given with enough time and clarity to matter.

02

Evidence over instinct

A strong hunch is a starting point, not a publishable claim. The language should never outrun what the material shows.

03

Knowing our limits

We teach method, not law. When a question needs an advocate, we say so plainly and point you there.

Who runs it

The people behind the sessions.

Portrait of Achieng Otsyula

Achieng Otsyula

Lead trainer

Portrait of Mwikali Nzuki

Mwikali Nzuki

Draft assessment lead

Portrait of Oduya Kiprotich

Oduya Kiprotich

Legal awareness sessions

If any of this sounds useful for your next piece, we would be glad to talk it through.

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