Collaborative Reporting Across Borders
Stories woven from many newsrooms, credited to each one
Montrex brings independent newsrooms together on shared investigations across West Africa — each partner's contribution named, each finding traceable to its source.
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Newsrooms joined
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Countries covered
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Joint projects published
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Languages carried
Why Montrex Exists
One thread, many hands
Cross-border stories rarely fit inside one newsroom's reach. Montrex was built as a space where partner outlets can bring their own reporting into a shared frame, keep their editorial independence, and still be named clearly for what they added.
- Shared methodology panels, written and signed jointly by every partner newsroom.
- A contribution ledger stating precisely what each partner supplied.
- Translation notes recording the source text and each rendering's preparer.
What We Offer
Ways to work with us
Collaborative Project Access
Follow published cross-border projects with full methodology and ledgers, in each language they appear.
Learn more →Partner Newsroom Plan
A shared workspace, standard agreements, and coordination calls for newsrooms joining joint work.
Learn more →Collaboration Practice Programme
A five-week programme on running joint reporting projects across borders and time zones.
Learn more →From the Blog
Recent reporting notes
Cross-Border Trade
Tracing a Timber Route Through Three Borders
How three newsrooms followed a single shipment across checkpoints and paperwork.
Methodology
Writing a Methodology Panel Four Newsrooms Can Sign
Notes on reaching shared language for a joint verification standard.
Translation
Keeping a Source Text Honest Across Five Languages
The quiet discipline behind Montrex's translation notes.
Our Approach
Shared credit, kept plainly
- — No partner's byline sits beneath another's in a joint piece.
- — Verification standards are agreed before reporting begins, not after.
- — Publication timing is coordinated so no partner is caught unprepared.
- — Every rendering into another language names who prepared it.
If your newsroom is weighing a cross-border story, we'd welcome a conversation.
Start a ConversationPartner Voices
What partners tell us
"The ledger meant our smaller team's fieldwork was named clearly, right beside the larger partner's data analysis."
Ijeoma Nwafor
Editor, Delta Bulletin
"Coordinating publication across three time zones used to be the hardest part. The shared calendar solved that quietly."
Kwabena Osei-Mensah
Investigations Lead, Coastwise Press
"The translation note settled a disagreement in our newsroom about which version was authoritative — a small thing that mattered a lot."
Fatoumata Diarra
Managing Editor, Sahel Chronicle
Questions
A few common questions
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