Deadline: January 26, 2024
Applications are open for the JournalismAI Fellowship Programme 2024. The JournalismAI Fellowship is a global, collaborative programme that brings together journalists and technologists from around the world to use artificial intelligence technologies to enhance journalism and its processes.
They invite applications for the fourth cohort of the JournalismAI Fellowship. This year we will focus primarily on projects that envision using GenAI. Up to 30 journalists and technologists will be selected to join the 2024 Fellowship cohort and work together over the course of seven months (April to November).
Benefits
- Thanks to the support of the Google News Initiative, the programme is entirely free for selected participants.
- The organisers have allocated around GBP £6,000 per project to support research and project development expenses. The money is not a stipend or compensation (you are not expected to leave your job to participate in the Fellowship Programme).
- Additionally, all mentors will receive GBP £500 for the eight hours they will spend supporting your work.
Eligibility
- If you are an editorial or technical person working in a news organisation, you are eligible to apply. You can apply either as a pair i.e. one editorial and one technical colleague, or, as an individual applicant.
- All candidates must have some experience working on products and/or stories that involve the use of AI technologies.
- Regardless of whether you apply separately, or in pairs, you must form a team with an equal split of editorial and technical candidates in order to be eligible for final selection. You may form teams of four fellows or six fellows with an equal split between editorial/strategic and technical fellows.
- Fluency in English is required.
- This is not a training programme for journalists that have no experience working with AI technologies. If you are fairly new to this field, you should consider applying for the Academy for Small Newsrooms or the JournalismAI Discovery.
Application
- Express your interest: Interested applicants must first submit an initial application to pass the initial screening process. Pairs of candidates (one editorial, one technical) or individual technical and editorial candidates from news organisations may apply.
- Match with other shortlisted applicants: All shortlisted applicants will be invited to form teams through a guided match-making process facilitated by the JournalismAI team. You may form teams of four fellows or six fellows with an equal split between editorial/strategic and technical fellows.
- Submit your joint project proposal: Once you have formed teams, you must submit a second and final application with your project proposal for the Fellowship period.
For more information, visit JournalismAI Fellowship.
