Pulitzer Center AI Accountability Fellowships 2026 (up to $25,000) – YOA

Deadline: July 12, 2026

Applications are open for the Pulitzer Center AI Accountability Fellowships 2026. The Al Accountability Fellowships search to help journalists engaged on in-depth AI accountability tales that study governments’ and companies’ makes use of of predictive, generative, and surveillance applied sciences to information choices in policing, medication, social welfare, felony justice, hiring, and extra.

They search to help journalists and newsrooms that signify the range of the communities impacted by AI applied sciences. The Fellowship is designed for reporters from all beats, desks, and codecs who need to broaden, deepen, and diversify reporting on synthetic intelligence with an accountability lens.

Journalists want to apply with a reporting challenge they want to pursue throughout their Fellowship. They encourage enterprise and accountability tasks that use a wide range of approaches—together with information evaluation, data requests, and shoe-leather-based reporting—to delve into the true-world impression of algorithms on coverage, people, and communities.

Benefits

• Fellows might be supplied up to $25,000 (up to $20,000 for reporting and $5,000 for engagement actions) to pursue their reporting tasks. Funds can be utilized to pay for data requests, journey bills, information evaluation, and stipends, amongst different prices.
• In addition, the Fellows could have entry to mentors from totally different fields and related coaching with a gaggle of friends that can assist strengthen their reporting tasks.

Eligibility

• Open to employees or freelance journalists engaged on a variety of platforms, together with print, radio, video, and multimedia.
• Team gamers with the expertise and/or capacity to work collaboratively throughout newsrooms and borders.
• Reporters with a deep curiosity in how AI impacts the world, and why this concern issues to our world properly-being.
• Reporters prepared to take part in outreach actions associated to their investigations, reminiscent of occasions at colleges, universities, and public-dealing with occasions.
• Reporters might be primarily based wherever. The Fellowships are distant.
• Fellowship communication, conferences, and coaching might be in English, however Fellows can publish in any language.

Application

To apply, you will have to present the next:

• A brief assertion of function: how this Fellowship suits in your profession path and why you might be greatest positioned to be an Al Accountability Fellow. (500 phrases)
• An in depth description of the reporting challenge you search to pursue throughout your Fellowship. Please don’t suggest basic themes, however suggest a concrete challenge that exhibits some pre-reporting on the topic. A compelling, properly-researched challenge proposal with a reporting plan will enable you stand out amongst tons of of candidates. (500 phrases)
• An engagement plan: what actions you might facilitate to maximize the impression of your challenge, and to guarantee it reaches the audiences who might most profit from partaking with this reporting.
• A price range that lays out anticipated prices of the challenge. Categories could embrace data requests, software program, information evaluation, journey and lodging, and stipends. If your price range exceeds the utmost quantity supplied for this Fellowship ($25,000), please embrace your different funding sources that can permit you to full this challenge.
• Three examples (hyperlinks) of your greatest tales printed up to now three years (not essentially on synthetic intelligence).
• A letter of dedication or curiosity from a media group(s) that will publish your story(ies). If you’re a employees reporter, a signed letter out of your editor or newsroom supervisor confirming you’ve gotten their help in making use of for the AI Accountability Fellowship. This letter ought to explicitly state that your newsroom will allocate time for you to take part within the Fellowship actions and the newsroom will help publishing the tales you produce via this Fellowship. It may also embrace data on why your supervisor thinks you’ll be fitted to this Fellowship.
• Three skilled references: These might be both contact data or letters of advice.
• A replica of your resume or curriculum vitae.

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For extra data, go to AI Accountability Fellowships.