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Are you an experienced journalist or media creator? If yes, you would not want to miss the 2025/2026 Tarbell Grant Award. Click here to learn more about this grant and apply.
Opportunity Details
As artificial intelligence grows more advanced, the technology and the people building it grow increasingly consequential. We believe journalism plays a crucial role in helping the public understand AI and in holding companies and policymakers to account.
Tarbell offers grants of $1,000 - $15,000 to support original reporting published in established outlets, whether from freelancers or staff. Focused primarilyon written journalism, but also fund journalism in other formats.
Tarbell Grant 2025/2026 welcomes submission from all experienced journalists and media creators: both staff writers/editors/producers and freelancers are welcome to apply. Journalists with an investigative background are particularly encouraged to apply. A background in reporting on AI and/or technology is desirable, but not mandatory.
You do not need to have an outlet secured before applying, although we encourage it. If you can’t secure a letter of interest from an editor before your application, we’ll ask you to obtain one before we distribute any funding (see template). Your publication or distribution platform of choice must be able to accept grant-funding for stories.
Tarbell Grant 2025/2026 seek to fund investigations and forward-looking stories, examining how today’s technical advancements and policy decisions lay the groundwork for how artificial intelligence will shape our future. In particular, we seek to fund reporting on five focus areas:
1.Investigations into frontier AI companies
2.National and international AI policymaking
3.Integration of AI in governments and militaries
4.AI capabilities, safeguards, and evaluations
5.Future of work and society in an age of advanced AI
We encourage you to read more about the grant program's focus areas and evaluation criteria before you apply.
Apply for Tarbell Grants 2025/2026 For Journalist