Pulitzer Center Releases AI Spotlight Curriculum in Portuguese and Spanish

The Pulitzer Center is pleased to announce that our AI Spotlight Series training curriculum is now available in Portuguese and Spanish, expanding access to resources designed to strengthen AI accountability reporting worldwide.

The AI Spotlight Series was created to equip journalists and newsrooms with the knowledge, tools, and frameworks needed to cover artificial intelligence and its profound impact on society critically and responsibly. Since 2024, the initiative has hosted more than two dozen webinars and in-person workshops, training over 3,000 journalists across the globe in seven languages.

To make these resources more accessible and available on-demand, the Center released our open-sourced curriculum at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Malaysia in November 2025. The open curriculum offers course modules, slide decks, and instructional videos developed by some of the world’s leading technology reporters and editors, including lead curriculum designer Karen Hao.

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The curriculum is structured across three tracks:

• Reporters on any desk seeking to understand AI’s growing influence
• Journalists reporting on AI who want to deepen their expertise
• Editors commissioning stories on AI and shaping newsroom strategy

Each course provides a grounding in how AI systems work, along with practical guidance for identifying stories that examine the technology’s societal impacts, hold powerful actors accountable, and drive meaningful policy and community change. The curriculum emphasizes rigorous reporting while avoiding both hype and unnecessary alarmism.

By expanding the curriculum into Portuguese and Spanish, we aim to support journalists and newsrooms across Latin America and other regions where conversations about AI’s impacts are rapidly evolving. In working with coaches on the translations, we intentionally adapted the curriculum to be regionally relevant.

The Portuguese sessions are taught by Tatiana Dias, a 2023 Pulitzer Center AI Accountability Fellow and an executive editor at the Intercept Brasil. Dias’ Fellowship investigated the human labor behind AI, focusing on underpaid Brazilian workers tasked with training large AI models.

The Spanish curriculum is led by Fabiola Torres and Jason Martinez, reporting partners at Salud con lupa. Torres was a 2024 AI Accountability Fellow with the Pulitzer Center. Her Fellowship reporting project, supported by Martinez, focused on elderly people left behind in Peru’s social welfare system, which is increasingly reliant on AI.

“While we’ve had live sessions translated into seven languages, we always wanted to design a version of our training that put those languages first, with translated slide decks and expert journalists who have been reporting in those languages, regions, and contexts for years,” said Pulitzer Center AI Editor Joanna Kao. “We’re thrilled that we’ve been able to partner with such accomplished journalists and editors from our network on this project.”

The Center will release the curriculum in French and bahasa Indonesia later this year. We hope that journalists will access, adapt, and build on this growing body of knowledge.

The AI Spotlight Series is made possible by the generous support of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Notre Dame-IBM Technology Ethics Lab, the Ford Foundation, and individual donors and foundations who support our work more broadly. Read our terms of use and privacy policy.

Learn more about the AI Spotlight Series curriculum and explore the materials on our website.

About the Pulitzer Center

The Pulitzer Center champions the power of stories to make complex issues relevant and inspire action. Our AI Accountability Network supports journalists in reporting on artificial intelligence and its far-reaching impacts. To date, the Center has trained nearly 3,000 journalists on AI accountability reporting through the AI Spotlight Series curriculum.