Deadline: 31-Dec-2025
The Pulitzer Center seeks applications for their reporting initiative focused on AI and surveillance technologies and their impact on communities around the world.
Focus: AI industry supply chains, procurement processes for algorithmic and surveillance systems, environmental impacts of AI, AI & disinformation networks, AI warfare, AI regulation and governance, and transparency and governance are a cross-cutting theme for all of their focus areas.
The Center seeks to support deep-dive reporting projects that follow the money across borders, shed light on opaque and harmful supply chains, and investigate the systems, organizations, and people that enable corruption. The Pulitzer Center does not fund books, feature-length films, staff salaries, equipment purchases, general outlet expenses, seed money for startups, routine breaking news, advocacy campaigns, or data projects aimed solely at academic research.
Grant opportunities are open to writers, photographers, radio producers, and filmmakers, including both staff journalists and freelancers. The Center values diversity in gender, ethnicity, backgrounds, and nationality, encouraging applications from both veteran reporters and younger journalists seeking to jumpstart their careers.
Applicants are required to submit a description of the proposed project in no more than 250 words, a thorough publication plan including letters of interest or commitment from editors and news outlets, a preliminary budget estimate detailing hard reporting costs, three samples of published work, three professional references, and a copy of their curriculum vitae. While optional, applicants may also include a more detailed description of the project, but the 250-word summary remains the most critical component of the submission. Applications must be written in English.
Deadlines operate on a rolling basis, with confirmation of receipt provided within a week and responses generally issued by the end of the following month.
For more information, visit The Pulitzer Center.