The Pulitzer Center’s AI Accountability Network has selected its fourth cohort of AI Accountability Fellows.
Eight journalists across four continents will spend the next 10 months investigating the AI supply chain, its applications, and its human impacts in their communities.
The Fellows will establish cross-border collaborations, incorporate OSINT techniques, and work with scientists to deepen our understanding of the environmental cost of AI’s infrastructure, the impact of AI chatbots on mental health, and AI companies’ roles behind misinformation and child sexual abuse, among other topics.
They will extend the reach of their reporting with targeted outreach and engagement activities after publication of their investigations, exhibiting the Pulitzer Center’s full model of combining breakthrough journalism and audience engagement to create world-changing impact. They will also share their reporting methods and tools to inspire other journalists.
“Amid the current hype around AI technologies, we are thrilled to partner with eight fantastic journalists who will ask the tough questions, dig through data and documents, and center humans in their storytelling,” said Marina Walker Guevara, the Pulitzer Center’s executive editor. “They are not only pursuing stories of high public interest but also contributing to build the field of AI accountability reporting.”
The 2025-2026 AI Accountability Fellows are (in alphabetical order):
- Ibrahim Adeyemi, digital investigations editor at HumAngle Media, based in Nigeria
- Tatsiana Ashurkevich, a freelance journalist based in the United Kingdom
- Patricia Clarke, technology reporter at The Observer, based in the United Kingdom
- Miguel Dobrich, founder and editor-in-chief of Amenaza Roboto, based in Uruguay
- Laís Ferreira Martins, reporter for The Intercept Brasil, based in Brazil
- Jonathan Moens, freelance science and investigative journalist based in Italy, working with Science magazine
- Sheref Morad, freelance investigative reporter based in Egypt, working with Al-Pheratz magazine
- Si Err Yap, multimedia journalist at Malaysiakini’s KiniTv, based in Malaysia
The Fellowship provides financial, data, and research support to the selected journalists, who also receive training and meet regularly as a cohort. The Fellows also participate in multidisciplinary outreach programs designed by the Pulitzer Center Engagement and Education teams to amplify the reach and impact of their stories.
Launched in 2022, the Fellowships have so far supported 27 journalists from five continents. Their reporting has triggered policy reforms, sparked official inquiries, and inspired college newspapers to start their own investigations and student poets to examine AI accountability.
The AI Accountability Network seeks to address the knowledge imbalance on artificial intelligence that exists in the journalism industry and to create a multidisciplinary and collaborative ecosystem that enables journalists to report on this fast-evolving topic with skill, nuance, and impact.
The AI Accountability Network fellowships are funded with the support of the Open Society Foundations (OSF), Luminate, Notre Dame-IBM Tech Ethics Lab, and individual donors and foundations who support our work more broadly.
If you are a journalist or editor interested in joining this network, please visit our AI Accountability Network page for more information or email [email protected]. If you would like to join one of our one-off training sessions on AI reporting, please visit the AI Spotlight Series page.
A shorter version of this announcement appeared in the October 24, 2025, edition of the Pulitzer Center's weekly newsletter. Subscribe today.
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