AI in the Newsroom Fellowship 2026 for African Journalists

The AI in the Newsroom Fellowship 2026 is a six-month intensive fellowship designed for media professionals to develop newsroom-ready AI-powered solutions. It includes technical upskilling, project mentorship, and access to AI sandbox tools to address a concrete newsroom use case. The program runs from June to December 2026 and invites journalists, editors, and media professionals to apply with a defined newsroom problem and proposed AI prototype.

Technical upskilling in AI for data journalism and AI-assisted workflows; project mentorship; access to dedicated AI sandbox tools and frameworks; collaborative network with other journalists and media professionals.

Open to journalists, editors, news content creators, and media professionals interested in AI-supported journalism, who can define a clear newsroom use case and provide a commitment letter from their newsroom or a freelancer commitment.