FILE REF: BX-001 · OPENING SHEET
A working method for inquiries that need to hold together
Brexion works with reporters in Kenya on the practical side of investigation — how material is structured, how it is shared with a colleague, and how you know when an inquiry is actually finished. Lawful methods, written down, kept simple.
FILE REF: BX-002
What we actually do
Brexion is not a newsroom and does not publish anything itself. It works alongside reporters — usually one at a time — on the organisational and procedural questions that decide whether a long inquiry survives its own length: how the file is built, who holds which piece of it, and what "finished" is meant to mean.
- — Structure that a colleague could pick up cold
- — Shared records instead of two partial ones
- — A defensible answer to "are we done?"
FILE REF: BX-003
Three sessions, three problems
Inquiry File Structure
Organise material by the question it answers, not by where it came from.
Learn more →Collaboration & Handover
A shared method for working with a colleague, or passing an inquiry along cleanly.
Learn more →Completion Review
A structured check for whether an inquiry is genuinely ready to close.
Learn more →FILE REF: BX-004
Notes from the field
METHOD
Filing correspondence apart from evidence
Why the two get muddled early, and a simple way to keep them apart from the first week.
COLLABORATION
Agreeing attribution before the story is written
The conversation that saves a partnership, and when to have it.
COMPLETION
Knowing when an inquiry is actually finished
Open questions rarely close themselves. A way to decide what's left.
FILE REF: BX-005
Why the method matters
- ✓Every method here stays within lawful, ordinary reporting practice — nothing covert, nothing that puts a source at risk.
- ✓Structure is taught against your own material, not a hypothetical example.
- ✓Sessions produce a written document you keep and can return to.
If your file is starting to outgrow you, it may be worth a session before it gets harder to fix.
Talk it throughFILE REF: BX-006
What reporters said afterward
"I'd been carrying the whole structure in my head. Writing it down changed how I worked, not just how the files looked."
Naliaka Wekesa
Freelance reporter, Kitale
"The handover checklist meant my colleague could pick up the file without three weeks of me explaining it in person."
Odongo Achieng
Editor, regional desk
"The completion review caught two threads I'd quietly stopped pursuing. Worth knowing before publication, not after."
Cherotich Barno
Investigative reporter
FILE REF: BX-007
Common questions
FILE REF: BX-008
Get in touch
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