Bespoke consultancy packages
1. Dare to ask!
// SOS strategy hotline
(FAQs, quick scans + shitstorm troubleshooting)
Example: After announcing a recent event, your socials are filling up with mentions – and not the good kind. You need to understand where you went wrong and course-correct fast!
Objective:
Immediate troubleshooting in a safe and confidential setting for situations with many uncertain factors or emergency situations that are sensitive in nature.
An emergency video or phone meeting call for strategic feedback and creative brainstorming. In-depth advice on a single topic. Can range from “HELP! Why are people so upset?” or “What can we expect launching our new project”, to even “Where should we start in our newsroom representation and inclusion strategy?”
Deliverable:
Standard pack of 1 block of 5 hours, including 2 hours of research and briefing, 1 hour of preparation (written feedback), a one-hour call and a follow-up email to answer any post-call questions.
Pricing:
€190/hour, so €950 for the full 5-hour block.
Existing clients can book a 3-hour block for €400
Includes prep + call/written feedback + follow-up and/or explanation.
Extra time is billed by the hour.
2. Seek to sustain!
// Newsroom deepdive + strategy gameplan
(resilience insurance)
Example: You’ve organised countless representation and inclusion workshops and trainings but continue to field complaints from current and former employees about a hostile work environment. You want to retain your talent and find out why one-off trainings haven’t had a lasting impact.
Objective:
Comprehensive strategic advice on your newsroom dynamics and representative goals, including evidence-based strategy. The starting point for newsrooms that have experimented with representation and inclusion in some capacity, but haven’t seen lasting outcomes. Clients who have requested and received hotline advice can get to the deeper, root cause of the issue at hand with this solution.
Deliverable:
20-page assessment of representation and inclusion efforts undertaken by your organisation in the last 1/3/5 years.
Focus on one of the following priorities:
inclusive workspace & talent development
digital security and resilience
audience engagement and PR
sources & angles approach and post-publication relations
Includes SWOT analysis of what went wrong in the past and how to set evidence-based priorities with guaranteed impact in the future, as well as a toolkit for the chosen main priority.
Pricing:
Estimate upon request.
3. Hire to develop & promote!
// Innovation + skill-building
(for staff, managers & leaders)
Example: You’d love to have a more diverse workforce, but can’t seem to attract interested applicants. Could something be wrong with your recruitment strategy?
Example 2: You know how to find entry-level talent but are you ready to start turning the dormant potential in your newsroom into innovative and resilient journalists? When the topics of data journalism, open-source investigations, information security or cross-media empowerment come up, everyone either shrugs or panics. Who can train your best journalists?
Example 3: Now that you have that large, representative team of remotely working, innovative superjournos… how can you actually manage a cross-country or even cross-border team without having to develop superpowers?
Objective:
Bespoke training packages tailored to your newsroom’s innovation potential and covering extensive areas of expertise. Investigative tools, data tools and the like, but all integrated as part of an HR strategy because hiring and development goes hand in hand. Perfect for newsrooms with a small budget who want to inspire and activate journalists through personalised, accessible skill-building.
Deliverable:
Ad-hoc trainings, stackable and tailored to your organisation. All trainings include executive consultancy for management and tailor-made consultancy handouts for participants.
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Pricing:
Starts at €3,840, including executive consultancy (2 hours consultancy + 2 hours research) + newsroom quick scan (8 hours research) + training (4 hours minimum) + handout (2 hours).
Optional:
Bespoke recruitment assistance for candidates your newsroom cannot find for a fee ranging between €1,800 to €3,500 per pre-qualified candidate profile (includes 3 qualified candidates per profile pre-selected by Paladin + availability for recruitment meetings at the standard €190 hourly rate), depending on level of qualifications necessary.
4. Engage to share!
// Engaged audience representation
(engagement + community management)
Example: You know that news audiences aren’t just old, middle-class and white … but does your community engagement strategy reflect this?
Purpose:
To grow your engagement, we can shadow your engagement editors and help address their bottlenecks and unique talents. Or, let us take over your community management for a few days to ensure organic, inclusive growth. Available for all newsrooms and companies working with journalism to engage audiences!
Deliverable:
Take-over: community management hands-on consultancy and execution
OR
Shadow work: hands-on feedback, including a strategic report.
Pricing:
Take-over: €1,400 per day with a minimum of 2 days incl. 4 hours of prep work. Includes task log and standout conclusions within our 360-degree strategic framework.
Shadow work: brainstorming (2 hours consultancy + 2 hours research) + quickscan (10 hours interviews) + training (4 hours minimum) + handout (2 hours) = starting at €3,650
5. Reflect to pivot…
// Ethical check-ins
(external effectiveness monitor)
Example: Your team and leadership have embraced a quality-driven representation and inclusion strategy and have now launched their first intervention or project. But since underrepresented journalists are placed in the middle of this with less power and/or resources, how can you be sure your strategy is actually working?
Purpose:
Ethical independent monitoring for implemented underrepresentation interventions through strategic feedback on effectiveness – perfect to combine with all other packages.
Deliverable:
Offering fail-proof representation and inclusoon strategies that consistently reproduce success, we mine for blindspots and prevent counterproductive growing pains.
External analysis through anonymous interviews by our researchers, focused on conflict prevention and talent development maximisation. Includes weekly report and risk analysis + future strategy process breakdown to finalise (and use for annual reviews and reports).
Pricing:
€10.5K for an all-inclusive month, can be done once or twice a year.
/ €8K a month for 2 months if one or two additional interventions need to be included.
6. Special partnerships
// In-house newsroom training
(previously known as Vileine Academy)
Example: Your newsroom is ready to combine consultancy strategies with purpose-driven onboarding of high potentials with underrepresented skills and knowledge. We help select and train investigative journalists in an all-inclusive package.
Purpose:
Assistance with recruitment + investigative skill-building, including personal coaching of talent and strategy reflection for newsrooms.
Deliverable:
Customised traineeships over a 2-month recruitment process + 4-month weekly training programme + additional coaching and consultancy possible at half the standard rate.
Pricing:
€13.5K for 4 months