AI Reporting Grants

• Eligibility Criteria: Open to staff and freelance journalists worldwide. Applicants must propose in-depth reporting projects focused on AI and/or surveillance technologies and their impact on communities. Projects must incorporate accountability reporting, data-driven approaches, collaborations, or cross-disciplinary methods. Applications must include a 250-word project description (with optional extended materials), a preliminary budget, and a clear distribution plan with letters of commitment from publishing outlets. Applicants should reflect the communities they report on; diversity and inclusion in project teams are encouraged. Only complete applications will be considered.
• Type of Funding: Reporting grants covering the hard costs of in-depth AI and surveillance technology journalism.
• Target Region: Global (with particular interest in reporting from Africa, Latin America, South Asia, and Southeast Asia).
• Application Language: Not explicitly stated (traditionally English for Pulitzer Center applications).

Objectives

• Support rigorous journalism examining how AI and surveillance systems are designed, deployed, and experienced by communities globally.
• Promote accountability by investigating opaque technologies, harmful supply chains, governance failures, and cross-border financial flows.
• Center the voices of individuals and communities most directly affected by automated systems.
• Encourage innovative reporting formats and solutions-oriented journalism.
• Strengthen global AI accountability reporting, especially from underrepresented regions.

Project Themes

• AI industry supply chains.
• Procurement processes for algorithmic and surveillance systems.
• Environmental impacts of AI.
• AI and disinformation networks.
• AI warfare.
• AI regulation, governance, and transparency.
• Cross-border investigations exposing corruption, harmful practices, and unregulated AI deployment.
• All journalistic formats are eligible, including multimedia, cross-border collaborations, and creative audience engagement strategies.

Financial Support:
Funding covers hard reporting costs, such as travel, data access, research expenses, fact-checking, and other direct reporting needs.

Application Deadline: No deadline — applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

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