Pulitzer Center’s AI Accountability Fellowships 2024

The Pulitzer Center is now accepting applications for its third cohort (2024-2025) of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Accountability Fellowships.

Through the AI Accountability Fellowships, the Pulitzer Center aims to support in-depth, high-impact reporting projects that document and explain the opportunities, harms, and regulatory and labor issues surrounding AI systems. The Fellowship program provides selected journalists with financial support, a community of peers, mentorship, and training to pursue in-depth reporting projects that interrogate how AI systems are funded, built, and deployed by corporations, governments, and other powerful actors.

• Table of Content
• About Pulitzer Center
• Pulitzer Center’s AI Accountability Fellowships
• Aim and Benefits of Pulitzer Center’s AI Accountability Fellowships
• Requirements for Pulitzer Center’s AI Accountability Fellowships Qualification
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About Pulitzer Center

The Pulitzer Center raises awareness of underreported global issues through direct support for quality journalism across all media platforms and a unique program of education and public outreach. The video below is a quick introduction to our history and mission.   Founded in 2006, we are now the largest single source of money for global enterprise reporting—and the only one incorporating this reporting into comprehensive educational programs that extend the impact of the reporting and allow students and the public to engage directly on the issues. The result is sustained... continue reading

Pulitzer Center’s AI Accountability Fellowships

Application Deadline	10 Aug 2024
Type	Fellowship
Sponsor	Pulitzer Center
Gender	Men and Women

Aim and Benefits of Pulitzer Center’s AI Accountability Fellowships

• The ten-months-long Fellowship starts in September 2024.
• Journalists selected as AI Accountability Fellows will be provided up to $20,000 to pursue their reporting projects.
• Funds can be used to pay for records requests, travel expenses, data analysis, and stipends, among other costs. In addition, the Fellows will have access to mentors from different fields and relevant training with a group of peers that will help strengthen their reporting projects.

Requirements for Pulitzer Center’s AI Accountability Fellowships Qualification

• The Pulitzer Center is recruiting eight to ten journalists from anywhere in the world to report on the impacts of algorithmic and automated systems in their communities.
• Staff or freelance journalists working on a wide range of platforms, including print, radio, video, and multimedia.
• Team players with the experience and/or ability to work collaboratively across newsrooms and borders.
• Reporters with a deep interest in how AI impacts the world, and why this issue matters to our global well-being.
• Reporters willing to participate in outreach activities related to their investigations, such as events at schools and universities.
• Reporters can be based anywhere. The Fellowships are remote.

Application Deadline

August 10, 2024

How to Apply

Interested and qualified? Go to Pulitzer Center on pulitzercenter.submittable.com to apply

For more details, visit Pulitzer Center’website.