Reporting Notes

Notes from behind the collaboration

Short pieces on how joint investigations actually come together, from the newsrooms doing the work.

Cross-Border Trade

Tracing a Timber Route Through Three Borders

Aug 3, 2026 · 6 min read

How three newsrooms followed a single shipment across checkpoints and paperwork, and what the ledger looked like once the story was done.

Methodology

Jul 29, 2026 · 5 min read

Notes on reaching shared language for a joint verification standard, and where the drafting nearly stalled.

Translation

Jul 22, 2026 · 7 min read

The quiet discipline behind Montrex's translation notes, and why the source version isn't always the first one written.