Name of the Event: Pulitzer Center’s AI Accountability Fellowships

Date: September 2024 – June 2025

Last Date of Application: 10 August 2024

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The Pulitzer Center’s AI Accountability Fellowships is recruiting eight to ten journalists from anywhere in the world to report on the impacts of algorithms and automated systems in their communities. They encourage journalists from the Global South and from communities that are underrepresented in the media to apply.

The 10-month-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.

While they welcome projects on a broad range of issues, this year they are also placing special emphasis on certain topics. They are seeking to support at least one project on transparency and governance in relation to AI. This includes projects that follow the money across borders; shed light on opaque and harmful AI supply chains; or report on legislation, business practices, and organizations that exacerbate the lack of accountability and transparency of AI systems.

Journalists need to apply with a reporting project they wish to pursue during their Fellowship. They encourage enterprise and accountability projects that use a variety of approaches—from data analysis to records requests, and shoe-leather reporting—and delve into the real-world impact of algorithms on policy, individuals, and communities.