Artificial Intelligence Accountability Reporting Grants Program
Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
The Pulitzer Center is seeking applications for the Artificial Intelligence Accountability Reporting Grants Program to support freelancers and newsrooms focusing on in-depth AI accountability stories that examine governments’ and corporations’ uses of algorithms to guide decisions in policing, medicine, social welfare, the criminal justice system, hiring, and more.
The Pulitzer Center is seeking to support freelancers and newsrooms focusing on in-depth AI accountability stories that examine governments’ and corporations’ uses of algorithms to guide decisions in policing, medicine, social welfare, the criminal justice system, hiring, and more.
Eligibility Criteria
This opportunity is open to U.S. residents and journalists around the world. They are open to proposals from freelance journalists, staff journalists, or groups of newsrooms working in collaboration with a project idea. They want to make sure that people from many backgrounds and perspectives are empowered to produce data journalism. They strongly encourage proposals from journalists and newsrooms who represent a broad array of social, racial, ethnic, underrepresented groups, and economic backgrounds.
Criteria
To apply, you will be asked to provide the following:
A description of the proposed project, including distribution/publication plan, no more than 250 words. They look more favorably on proposals that include a letter(s) of interest or support from publishers or editors.
Methodology: Please describe your approach to collecting and analyzing data, and include your approach for fact-checking or independently verifying any data that will be used in your reporting.
A preliminary budget estimate, including a basic breakdown of costs. Include travel costs, software, data, or hardware costs. Please do not include stipends for journalists/team members who are in the employ of newsrooms or are being paid by a publisher. If you are a journalist collaborating with a data analyst and/or data visual specialist you may include consultant fees in your budget.
Three examples (links) of published work by you (or someone on your project team.) For example: data visualizations, infographics, and/or data-driven stories.
Three professional references. These can be either contact information or letters of recommendation.
A copy of your resume or curriculum vitae.
Applications may also include a more detailed description of the project, but this will be considered as an optional supplement only. The most important part of the submission is the 250-word summary and the methodology.
For more information, visit https://pulitzercenter.org/artificial-intelligence-accountability-reporting-grants