The Pulitzer Center, in partnership with iMEdD (incubator for Media Education and Development), is seeking applications from journalists based in Southeastern Europe to attend a two-day, in-person training program on AI accountability reporting led by award-winning journalists Karen Hao and Gabriel Geiger. 

The hands-on training, part of the Pulitzer Center’s AI Spotlight Series, and facilitated by iMEdD’s training pillar, Ideas Zone, provides an opportunity for journalists to learn how to effectively cover the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and their impact in our daily lives, follow AI supply chains, and document harms. 

The hype around generative AI is supercharging the spread of AI tools worldwide. The Pulitzer Center and iMEdD recognize the need for journalists in Southeastern Europe to be equipped to cover the different facets of this fast-moving story. As journalists, the onus is on us to reveal, interrogate, and explain this technology's rapid and widespread integration. Where is AI being used? Where is it working or breaking? Who is being harmed, and who stands to profit? How can our audiences make sense of what it all means for them? 

More information about the training program and coaches is available here. Note that this is not a course about using AI tools in the newsroom. 

The Pulitzer Center will select 12 journalists from Southeastern Europe, including Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, and Turkey to attend the training in Thessaloniki, Greece on May 1-2, 2025.

For the selected participants, all expenses related to air travel, airport transfers, hotel accommodation, food and travel insurance will be covered. Participants are expected to arrive on April 30, 2025 and depart on May 3, 2025. 

The deadline to apply is Wednesday, March 12, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. (Eastern European Standard Time).