Thank for your interest to the AI Spotlight Series. Welcome to the Track 3: An Editor's Guide to Covering AI application page.

This 90-minute interactive training session, led by Bina Venkataraman, 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. 

To allow maximum interaction between the coaches and the editors, we will cap the maximum number of trainees to 35-40 journalists. During the application review, we consider, among others, the applicants' time zone, their role in the newsroom, and their motivation or reason for joining the training. 

Kindly note that this session is about reporting on AI, and not about using AI for journalistic purposes. Apply by March 16, 2026.

Thank for your interest to the AI Spotlight Series. Welcome to the Track 2: Reporting on AI Intensive application page.

This three-day course, taught by Gabriel Geiger and Lam Thuy Vo, is designed to give reporters a firm grounding in AI and how it works, as well as the tools to identify critical stories that will highlight the technology’s impacts, hold companies and governments accountable, and drive policy and community change while avoiding hype and unnecessary alarmism.

The Reporting on AI Intensive session is designed for reporters who grasp AI, spend significant time covering technology, and want to go deeper. It will help clarify your understanding of technical concepts and think more expansively about how to cover the different facets of this fast-moving story.

The course will require a dedicated time commitment: We will meet for 6 hours in one week, and an additional hour of recommended homework will be provided between sessions to maximize class time. Bahasa Indonesia translation will be provided.

At the program's end, you can pitch the Pulitzer Center for a grant or fellowship to support an AI accountability reporting project. You will also join the Center’s broader AI Accountability Network, a global consortium of journalists investigating and documenting AI's impacts on people and communities.