AI Accountability Fellowships

• Eligibility: reporters from all beats, desks, and formats who want to broaden, deepen, and diversify reporting on artificial intelligence with an accountability lens
• Target Region: Global
• Application Language: English

The AI Accountability Fellowships support journalists and newsrooms producing in-depth, accountability-focused reporting on governments’ and corporations’ use of predictive, generative, and surveillance AI technologies in areas such as policing, medicine, social welfare, criminal justice, and hiring. The 10-month Fellowship includes funding, mentorship, and training to develop and execute both the reporting project and an accompanying engagement/impact plan to reach strategic audiences.

Eligibility

• Staff or freelance journalists working on a wide range of platforms, including print, radio, video, and multimedia.
• Team players with the 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 matters to our global well-being.
• Reporters willing to participate in outreach activities related to their investigations, such as events at schools, universities, and public-facing events.
• Reporters can be based anywhere. The Fellowships are remote.
• Fellowship communication, meetings, and training will be in English, but Fellows can publish in any language.

Requirements

• A short statement of purpose: how this Fellowship fits in your career path and why you are best positioned to be an AI Accountability Fellow (500 words).
• A detailed description of the reporting project you seek to pursue during your Fellowship, with pre-reporting on the subject (500 words).
• An engagement plan: what activities you could facilitate to maximize the impact of your project and ensure it reaches the audiences who could most benefit from engaging with this reporting.
• A budget that lays out anticipated costs of the project (categories may include records requests, software, data analysis, travel and lodging, and stipends).
• Three examples (links) of your best stories published in the past three years (not necessarily on artificial intelligence).
• A letter of commitment or interest from a media organization(s) that would publish your story(ies), or a signed letter from your editor/newsroom manager if you are a staff reporter.
• Three professional references: either contact information or letters of recommendation.
• A copy of your resume or curriculum vitae.

How to Apply

Applications for the 2026-2027 AI Accountability Fellowships are open until July 12, 2026, 11:59 pm EDT. The application should be written in English, but writing samples, letters of commitment, and professional references can be written in other languages. Apply here.

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