The Guardian, The New York Times, The Cut, De Groene Amsterdammer, De Correspondent, BBC Radio, Pointer, Lighthouse Reports, One World, Messy Nessy Chic, DOCS, The Folks Magazine, DUB, Illuster, Fair Food, Memphis Film & Television, Natalia Ossef, Added Value Magazine, Leven! Magazine, Havas Lemz, Dutch Fund for In-Depth Journalism, The Dutch Journalism Fund (SVDJ.nl)
NARRATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP
Together with NRC editor Peter Zantingh, I teach narrative writing and reporting to Dutch journalism trainees. We explain how to identify a good narrative story, how to find the right characters, how to report for and write lively scenes, how to build narrative tension and story structure and how to use sensory detail, dialogue and personal interviews to make stories come alive.
Students work on specific stories during group meetings, and we help realize and publish their work after the workshop is done.
Some of the wonderful publications that have come out of this workshop so far:
- Hoe een Rotterdamse Reder de Paria van Panama Werd
Noah Moeys, Financieel Dagblad - Monument voor een verongelukt kind op de stoep: ‘De man die de schildering moest verwijderen, heeft het geweigerd’
Roos van Riel, Het Parool - De Volendamse Klaas en Kees Wilden de Paus Redden Met een Vis
Peer van Tetteroode, Noord Hollands Dagblad
EDUCATION
MFA Literary Reportage — New York University
Fulbright Netherlands Scholar
MA North American Studies — Leiden University
Editorial Internship at Voice of Witness, San Fransisco
BA Language and Cultural Studies — Utrecht University
Major North American Studies / Minor Youth Culture, Music and Media / Exchange Semester University of Wisconsin, Madison
Fashion Design — ArtEZ Academy for the Arts, Arnhem
EXTRACURRICULAR
TRUE STORIES CONFERENCE
Co-organized four editions of the True Stories Conference on narrative journalism in the Netherlands. Found and approached potential speakers. Coached speakers. Managed Social Media communications and newsletters.
NARRATIVE WORKING GROUP — IPK
Organized a monthly salon for professionals in journalism, film, academics and the arts, to discuss the power and pitfalls of narrative in their respective fields in 2022-2023. Hosted by Suketu Mehta and Terry Curtis Fox at the Institute of Public Knowledge.
NARRATIVE JOURNALISM FOUNDATION NETHERLANDS
Served as a board member of the Stichting Verhalende Journalistiek (Narrative Journalism Foundation Netherlands). Introduced Dutch journalists and editors to narrative journalism and narrative reporting techniques. Organized a new narrative training program for Dutch journalists in audio, long form, multimedia and narrative thinking.
COACH — FONDS BIJZONDERE JOURNALISTIEKE PROJECTEN
Currently coach grantees on their journalistic projects. Help figure out the narrative basis of projects, how to weave personal narrative through investigative and data research, and how to gather the best material while reporting.
WORKSHOPS AND TRAINING
2021
European Cross Border Journalism Program
Toepfer Foundation
Lighthouse Reports Sessions
OSINT, money trails, investigating institutions, data journalism
2020
Traineeship data journalism & digital storytelling Pointer (KRO-NCRV)
IMPACT Talent development program
Immersive media & data journalism
2018
Workshop Audio and Podcast Production by AudioCollectief SCHIK
Masterclass Documentary Storytelling by John Appel Amsterdam Film School
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