Pulitzer Center AI Reporting Grants (Global South)

Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity

The Pulitzer Center is now accepting applications for its reporting initiative focused on AI technologies and their impact on society.

This is a reporting grant to cover the hard costs of in-depth reporting projects.

What are they looking for?

• They welcome in-depth stories that explore with nuance how AI systems are designed, sold and deployed in communities around the world. They value reporting that centers on the people that are directly impacted by automated systems, as well as solutions-oriented stories. They encourage applications for all formats of reporting and also on lesser reported topics, including:
  • AI industry supply chains
  • Procurement processes for algorithmic and surveillance systems
  • Environmental impacts of AI
  • AI & disinformation networks
  • AI warfare
  • AI transparency and governance

Eligibility Criteria

• They particularly welcome applications from the Global South and seek reporting from Africa, Latin America and South and South East Asia. They are also interested in receiving proposals for collaborative reporting projects by teams of reporters working on AI accountability stories.
• Grants are open to all journalists: writers, photographers, radio producers, and filmmakers; staff journalists as well as freelancers.
• They support veteran reporters who have been widely published, but also back younger applicants who are looking for help to jumpstart their careers. A diversity of voices— gender, ethnicities, backgrounds and nationalities—is important to them.
• Applications must be received in English.
• Some applicants get a grant on their first try; others have to work harder at it. One applicant who was twice rejected kept coming back and eventually went on to do a dozen different projects with Pulitzer Center support.

Ineligible

• To save the grantees and staff time, they thought it would be helpful to outline editorial products and project expenses they don’t fund:
  • Books (they can support a story that might become part of a book, as long as the story is published independently in a media outlet)
  • Feature-length films (they do support short documentaries with ambitious distribution plans)
  • Staff salaries
  • Equipment purchases (equipment rentals are considered on a case-by-case basis)
  • An outlet’s general expenses (for example rent, utilities, insurance)
  • Seed money for start-ups
  • Routine breaking news and coverage

For more information, visit Pulitzer Center.
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