We invite educators supporting student instruction in grades K-12 to apply to be a members of this year's Information and AI Teacher Advisory Council.
This K-12 engagement program equips educators with resources to engage with our in-depth reporting on information and artificial intelligence and apply the questions of AI ethics and accountability raised by the reporting to their everyday work in the classroom. The program recognizes that, as a target audience for many AI tools, educators and the institutions they work for can offer meaningful insights as communities work to address the challenges and opportunities in AI development. This program is designed to provide educators with support developing their own awareness of AI accountability and directly engaging in conversations about AI ethics in the education space.
Council members will participate in six virtual evening workshops to explore underreported news stories about information and artificial intelligence, connect with Pulitzer Center-supported journalists reporting on AI accountability, and use Pulitzer Center education frameworks as tools in their collaborative discussions about the opportunities and challenges for K-12 classrooms seeking to engage with questions about AI accountability. As part of the workshops, teachers will use data from audience research, toolkits made by the previous AI Teacher Advisory Council, and reporting from the Pulitzer Center’s AI Accountability Network to develop a series of professional learning workshops that engage other educators in their communities with resources and reporting on AI accountability. Educators will facilitate the AI Accountability Teacher Training Series they develop as part of the advisory council at the beginning of the 2025-2026 school year, documenting learning and impact from the educators engaged in training, and ultimately presenting their learning in a public-facing showcase in fall 2025. Training materials created through the program will be integrated into learning modules published on the Pulitzer Center website as a resource for other educators.
Council members will engage with the following guiding questions:
- What roles have schools and education spaces played in the history of AI development? How does academia cultivate and inform questions about AI accountability and ethics?
- What role can reporting on information and AI accountability play in helping teachers and students better understand and engage with AI technologies?
- What strategies do journalists use to question, investigate, and advance the conversation about AI accountability and how can educators leverage these strategies to inform classroom practice and empower students’ voices?
- How can we best cultivate productive learning spaces for educators to engage in dialogue about the challenges of AI while centering AI accountability and AI ethics?
- How can teachers and students provide critical feedback to journalists reporting underreported information and AI stories?
This program seeks to extend the impact of the AI Accountability Network by developing resources that support classroom conversations about the use of predictive and surveillance technologies to guide decisions that impact a range of global communities.
Applications are due Friday, May 16, 2025.
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Upon successful completion of the program, Council members will be provided with:
- A $600 stipend (made in two payments of $300 disbursed in July and September)
- A Pulitzer Center AI Council Member digital badge
- A certificate for 20 hours of professional development
The Pulitzer Center is committed to making real, measurable progress on diversity, equity and inclusion in all of our programs and partnerships. Please review our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion statement for more information on our commitments. Educators from historically marginalized backgrounds, and/or educators who are teaching students from historically marginalized backgrounds, are strongly encouraged to apply.
Thank for your interest to the AI Spotlight Series. Welcome to the Track 3: An Editor's Guide to AI application page.
Please submit your application for the AI Spotlight Series Track 3 session. This will be a 90-minute interactive training session led by Tom Simonite and Bina Venkataraman.
This track is designed for managing editors, executive editors, desk editors, social media editors -- anyone in charge of directing coverage, commissioning stories, or packaging and producing them for public consumption.
We will identify different types of AI stories and dissect what sets apart the best coverage, including its framing, headline, and artwork. You’ll learn to assess pitches and filed stories and avoid common pitfalls that can mislead or confuse an audience (or an editor). There will be opportunities to ask questions, trade tips, and have a lively discussion among fellow newsroom decision-makers.
The Pulitzer Center’s StoryReach U.S. reporting and engagement accelerator seeks newsroom partners who value collaboration and audience engagement as much as powerful enterprise reporting. This is a chance to innovate with your peers and the Center’s team on high-impact projects that combine breakthrough reporting and effective audience engagement.
Our second year of StoryReach will focus on supporting newsrooms and journalists across the Midwest. We invite applications from freelance and staff reporters hosted by local or regional news outlets in the following 12 states: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
This 12-month, part-time fellowship will provide journalists with up to $30,000 to pursue their reporting project and innovative engagement activities that expand the reach and impact of their reporting. In addition, the Fellows will have access to data and research support and training with a group of peers that will help strengthen their reporting projects and related engagement activities.
Successful applicants will be expected to join a mandatory 90-minute meeting held every month and to engage with other Fellows in virtual meetings and on the community’s dedicated online platform.
We require the sharing of methodologies, engagement plans, and lessons learned so each reporting project may serve as a blueprint for other newsrooms pursuing similar projects.
Please prepare a detailed description of the reporting project you seek to pursue during your Fellowship, including a robust plan for audience engagement activities. Please do not propose general themes, but a concrete project that shows pre-reporting on the subject. A compelling, well-researched project proposal with a reporting plan will help you stand out.
Your plan for audience engagement should include the distribution channels for the reporting and a brief strategy for identifying and reaching audiences (both online and IRL) that need to engage with your project. Reference your pre-reporting to outline the key audiences for your project and how your publication and engagement strategies will connect reporting to those audiences. Your engagement strategies can include the production and distribution of explainer or informational materials, digital assets that are easily distributed in platforms your target audiences use, community events and exhibits in locations and/or with partners your target audiences are familiar with, collaborations with schools and universities; and more. Be bold!
Please apply using this form. Deadline: 11:59 pm EST on Thursday, May 1, 2025. We encourage you to include findings from your pre-reporting and submit your application early. We will schedule interviews with finalists on a rolling basis.