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for you
Are you a strategic thinker, (journalistic) creator, or media disruptor seeking to tell richer stories? We’ll collaborate on a narrative approach that meets audience demands for constructive stories, is inclusive and generates impact. The rapidly changing world needs better representation in narratives and more purposeful storytellers. Those who are willing to self-reflect, unlearn, and not simply follow the next marketing strategy hype peddled by wannabe gurus. The ones that think independently, consider solutions from various perspectives and aren't afraid to take decisive action. Is that you?
What can we do together?
TRAIN
Run Solutions Journalism, Complicating the Narrative and Digital Strategy training for newsrooms and storytellers.
Mentor
Grow professionally and personally in telling stories and/or managing a project for (media) professionals and (freelance) journalists.
Advise
Enrich journalistic storytelling, build a team and workflow, work inclusively and understand decolonization for professionals.
GATHER
Connect journalists and organisations to collaborate globally or come together in a course or retreat. For European and Southeast Asian networks.
Sprint
Dedicate time in which a set amount of work will be completed on a project. A pressure cooker for collaborative projects.
Study
Research and analyse new topics and formats for storytelling and interconnections between issues. For reporters and project managers.
Let’s chat!
Writing for transformation course
For storytellers like you who want to understand today’s world from a decolonial perspective and apply Solutions Journalism and Complicating the Narrative to your work.
4 guest speakers
Balinese/Indonesian writer, community leader, and lecturer Sonia Piscayanti (photo), Dutch investigative journalist, lecturer and author Bette Dam, German-Kurdish journalist and media entrepreneur Sham Jaff, Indian visual artist and doctoral fellow (studying in Switzerland) Debasish Borah.
5 weekly sessions
Starting May 5, 2024, every Sunday 2 PM CET / 8 PM SGT / 8 PM EST
1/200 of GDP
The fee is calculated as 1/200 of the GDP per capita in 2022 in USD in the country or region where you’re from, as reported by the World Bank.
Solutions Journalism Retreat, May 2023
“Great Solutions Journalism retreat with an interesting and varied program. The different parts of the program turned out to be interconnected which added depth to the overall experience. The location in the beautiful Frisian countryside, with lovely food and interesting people, made it a retreat to remember!”
Elja Daae
Policy Advisor, Artificial Intelligence & Algorithms
“Sanne has been our mentor through the Solutions Journalism Accelerator by the European Journalism Centre and the Solutions Journalism Network. She’s been incredibly supportive and encouraging while providing useful challenges to help us develop and progress in our work. She’s really helped me think through how to write and commission articles.”
Amy Hall
Co-editor, New Internationalist
HI, I’m Sanne
I’m a Dutch journalist and I want to help you tell richer stories. Also to yourself. I do this by working with experts from all parts of the world and in different disciplines to educate, delink, engage, advise, disrupt, and enlighten (journalism) organisations and storytellers.
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– Shirish Kulkarni, News Innovation Research Fellow at Media Cymru and Founder Inclusive Journalism Cymru.
Online training allows collaboration across borders, like here with journalists from Nagorno-Karabakh in Yerevan, Armenia.
In a resilient approach to online learning, I create a safe space for you and your colleagues, using interactive tools and exercises, breakout room discussions and enough breaks to stretch the legs. Reach out if you want me to facilitate or moderate your training or webinar.
Let’s chat!
Do you have a question, comment or request?
Please reach out, I’d love to hear from you.
☕️ or invite me for a coffee.
sanne@inclusivejournalism.com
+31 (0) 647 226 006
“What the earth is exhausted of is not its resources, what it has lost is its meaning. This is the great burden that now rests upon writers, artists, filmmakers, and everyone else who is involved in the telling of stories: to us falls the task of imaginatively restoring agency and voice to nonhumans.”
— Amitav Ghosh (author)
Frequently Asked Questions
What are your rates?
I have been doing projects in Europe and Southeast Asia. The rates differ for that reason. For Western Europe, my advisor rate lies between 800- 1200 Euros per day, depending on the project. I use separate rates for commercial and public projects and clients.
Why are you as a white woman focusing on inclusion and decolonization?
I believe that especially people from the dominant group in society should focus on representation and self-reflection. Besides that, decolonization/decoloniality is about realizing everyone’s position in society and seeing how to collaborate. I make space for underrepresented colleagues wherever and whenever possible.
Who are some of your clients and partners?
I work as the manager of Northern Europe for Sembra Media in Project Oasis Europe, a research into digital native media. I do freelance journalism training and project management for the Thomson Reuters Foundation (TRF) and for the climate consultancy bureau Imagine2050. I’m a mentor in the Solutions Journalism grant of the European Journalism Center (EJC) and the Solutions Journalism Network (SJN), and I’m mentoring the project management team of the data journalism advice bureau Thibi.
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