Announcing the Hacks/Hackers Newsroom AI Lab, plus jobs + events
Technical advisors Paige Moody and Jake Kara will guide participating teams through the new Hacks/Hackers Newsroom AI Lab.
We’re excited to announce the launch of the Hacks/Hackers Newsroom AI Lab, a year-long program designed to help smaller newsrooms build the skills and capacity to adopt AI ethically and responsibly. Backed by a $300,000 grant from the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, the Lab offers hands-on support from well-known newsroom technologists Jake Kara and Paige Moody.
A key aim of the program is to create tools and templates built specifically for journalism that can be used by other newsrooms, while also helping participants develop lasting technical confidence — not just one-off solutions. With guidance from Jake and Paige, newsrooms will learn how to evaluate, experiment with and integrate AI tools in ways that serve their missions and communities.
Read our announcement to learn more about the Newsroom AI Lab and find out how your newsroom can get involved:
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- How a Danish News Service Made a Profit with its Transcription Tool (Generative AI in the Newsroom project)
- Money promised to “save” local news vanishes as California proposes deep cuts (Calmatters)
- How DC Witness serves criminal justice stakeholders by combining deep reporting with smart data (Ulrike Langer)
Upcoming events
- June 19-22, New Orleans, US, IRE
- July 10-11, Minneapolis, US, SRCCON
- Sep 3-5, St. Louis, US, Independent News Sustainability Summit
- Sep 10-13, New Orleans, US, Online News Association
- Oct 23-24, Chicago, US, News Product Alliance Summit
Jobs
- (Anywhere) Pulitzer Center, Outreach Program Coordinator
- (Anywhere) Pulitzer Center, Audience Engagement Manager
- (UK) BBC Radio, Researcher
- (US) Texas Tribune, Designer/Developer
- (US) Washington Post, Computational Journalist
- (US) ProPublica, AI Engineering Fellow
- (US) Reuters, Digital Director
- (US) Wall Street Journal, Tech and Finance Reporter
- (US) University of Memphis, Open Source Investigation Faculty
- (US) University of Missouri, Journalism Strategy Chair
- (US) Dow Jones, Supervising Audio Producer