Applications are currently being accepted for The DW Akademie/Africa Uncensored AI in the Newsroom Fellowship 2026. Interested applicants are encouraged to click here to learn more about this opportunity and apply for it.
About The DW Akademie/Africa Uncensored AI in the Newsroom Fellowship
Akademie/Africa Uncensored AI in the Newsroom Fellowship. The AI in the Newsroom Fellowship is a six-month intensive program designed to bridge the gap between journalism and emerging technologies.
Benefits of The DW Akademie/Africa Uncensored AI in the Newsroom Fellowship
- Technical Upskilling: Deep dives into AI tools for data journalism, AI literacy trainings, and pairing with experts in the AI space.
- Project Mentorship: Dedicated support to help you move from a “bottleneck” to a finished, polished tool that is ready to deploy.
- Collaborative Network: Join a cohort of media professionals committed to raising the technical bar in journalism.
- Resource Access: Hands-on experience with a dedicated sandbox of tools, and the frameworks needed to address emerging and existing challenges.
The DW Akademie/Africa Uncensored AI in the Newsroom Fellowship Requirements
- The program is looking for journalists, editors and news content creators with an interest in AI-supported journalism, and who are able to define a clear use case stating how they plan to use AI tools to solve a challenge they have identifed, and who are able to use AI tools to advance their work.
- Fellows will be required to identify a concrete problem within their newsroom and demonstrate how their proposed AI prototype will help solve it.
- Additionally, applicants will be expected to submit a letter of commitment from their newsroom, or if a freelancer, a personal letter of commitment for the proposed project.
Application Date and Process
- Click on the link to the application website to apply.
Application Deadline
30 April, 2026
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