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Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi

Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi is an investigative journalist, AI expert, technologist, and media innovator. With a decade of experience, she focuses on uncovering environmental and social injustices, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. She is the developer of NewsAssist AI, an AI-powered platform that transcribes audio and video files to text, analyses and translates documents, and summarizes and edits articles.

As the Founder and CEO of The Colonist Report Africa, The Colonist Report UK, and JournoTECH, she leads organisations that leverage AI-powered tools and scientific analysis to report on critical issues such as oil pollution, climate change, and human rights violations.

Elfredah is also an AI app developer and web designer, with expertise in cybersecurity and ethical hacking.

At The Colonist Report, she integrates AI-driven research and data analysis to investigate and expose underreported environmental crises in hard-to-reach communities. Her work has brought global attention to issues such as oil spills and government inaction in Nigeria.

Through JournoTECH, she bridges the AI literacy gap by training journalists, educators, and marginalised communities to use AI tools for storytelling, fact-checking, digital security, and product development—with a focus on ethical AI use.

With NewsAssist AI, Elfredah pioneers AI solutions for content creators, journalists, and professionals—automating transcription, summarisation, grammar checks, and content extraction from long-form audio and documents. The platform is designed to reduce burnout and improve productivity, especially for users in underserved regions.

Summer Conference Event
 — Case study Talk

Digital Investigations: OSINT, Trade Data and AI

Three panellists talk through the innovative methods they used in recent investigations. The new digital methodologies allowed each to chase down important stories from major gaps in flood support funding from the Nigerian government, through sanctions evasion in arms trafficking to Russia, to the exploitation and abuse rife within platforms such as OnlyFans.
Summer Conference Event
 — Talk

Broken Promises: Greenwashing Uncovered

Recent years have seen significant improvement in both recognition and rhetoric from those in power around the need for action to address the looming impacts of the climate crisis. However, in too many cases, positive words have served only to obscure inaction at best and continued harm at worst.
Investigative and data journalist at The Colonist Report
thecolonistreport.com