Deadline: August 10, 2024

Registration is now open for the Pulitzer Center AI Accountability Fellowships 2024-2025 The AI Accountability Fellowships seek to support journalists working on in-depth AI accountability stories that examine the use of predictive and surveillance technologies by governments and corporations to guide decisions in policing, medicine, social welfare, the criminal justice system, hiring, and more.

programme overview

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The Pulitzer Center seeks to support journalists and newsrooms that represent the diversity of communities impacted by AI technologies. The fellowship is designed for reporters from all areas, newsrooms, and formats who wish to broaden, deepen, and diversify reporting on artificial intelligence with a responsible lens.

Journalists need to apply for a reporting project they wish to undertake during their fellowship. They encourage business and accountability projects that utilize a variety of approaches – including data analysis, records requests, and shoe leather reporting – to investigate the real-world impact of algorithms on policies, individuals, and communities.

In its first year, the Fellowship supported 10 fellows who submitted reports in 10 countries. The 2022 cohort of AI Accountability Fellows reported on crucial themes for equity and human rights, such as the impact of AI on the gig economy, social welfare, policing, migration, and border control.

While they welcome projects on a wide range of issues, this year they are also placing special emphasis on certain topics. They seek to support at least one project on transparency and governance in relation to AI. This includes projects that track 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 in AI systems.

Benefits

• The opportunity to work on an urgent and underreported issue for a substantial period of time.
• Access to mentors and specialized training opportunities.
• Pro bono support for accessing legal and public records.
• A community of like-minded colleagues who will continue beyond their Fellowship.
• Financial support, up to US$20,000 divided into three payments, to cover registration requests, travel expenses, data analysis, and stipends.
• The opportunity to find strong collaborators for your current or future projects.

Eligibility

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• Employees or freelance journalists who work across a wide variety of platforms, including print media, radio, video, and multimedia.
• Team players with 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 is important for 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. Scholarships are remote.

Application

To register, you must submit the following:

• A brief statement of purpose: how this fellowship fits into your career and why you are best positioned to be an AI Accountability Fellow. (500 words)
• A detailed description of the reporting project you intend to carry out during your fellowship. Do not propose general topics, but propose a concrete project that includes some preliminary reporting on the subject. An attractive and well-researched project proposal, with a reporting plan, will help you stand out among dozens of candidates. (500 words)
• A budget that outlines the projected costs of the project. Categories may include registration requests, software, data analysis, travel and accommodation, and stipends.
• Three examples (links) of your best stories published in the last three years (not necessarily about artificial intelligence).
• A letter of commitment or interest from a media organization that would publish your story(ies). If you are a staff reporter, a letter signed by your editor or newsroom manager confirming that you have their support in applying for the AI Accountability Fellowship. This letter should explicitly state that your newsroom will make time for you to participate in Fellowship activities and will support the publication of the stories you produce through this Fellowship. It may also include information about why your manager thinks you would be a good fit for this fellowship.
• Three professional references: these can be contact information or letters of recommendation.
• A copy of your CV or curriculum vitae.

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