JournalismAI Skills Lab 2026 for Journalists – YOA

Deadline: June 21, 2026

Applications are open for the JournalismAI Skills Lab 2026. The 2026 JournalismAI Skills Lab is a 14-week, free, digital programme designed for professionals to learn to virtually implement LLMs, GenAI, and brokers of their work.

The programme helps people upskill in utilizing AI applied sciences in a palms-on method. It equips individuals to develop their very own AI-based mostly instruments, prototypes, or proofs-of-idea. The final consequence is to deepen information of constructing with AI and to allow substantial contributions to interdisciplinary initiatives throughout the newsroom. It is geared toward all people who work on the intersection of journalism and know-how, together with editorial and product employees.

Benefits

Participants go away the Skills Lab with greater than a certificates. Here’s what’s ready for you contained in the programme:

• Learning from a curriculum co-designed with a product leaders and information scientists
• Hands-on classes in creating journalistic proofs-of-idea utilizing GenAI, LLMs, and brokers
• ‘Lecture’ and ‘Lab’ studying elements, with an amazing diploma of emphasis on palms-on expertise

Eligibility

• Candidates with a minimum of some information* of how AI programs are being utilized in journalism together with however not restricted to information journalists, reporters, editors, visible editors, copyeditors, product professionals and many others.
• Ideal candidates possess primary arithmetic and good numeracy expertise to excel within the programme**
• Ideal candidates have some information and expertise with Python**

* By “some knowledge,” they imply that it’s best to already perceive what AI is and the way it’s at present being utilized in newsrooms. This programme builds on that basis and is greatest suited for those that are aware of these ideas. If you’re simply beginning out, they advocate exploring introductory assets to achieve essentially the most from future alternatives.

**In the absence of present numeracy and Python expertise, you might be nonetheless welcome to apply. They advocate such candidates take the next programs to make sure that all individuals start the programme on a uniform footing:

Application

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to JournalismAI Skills Lab.