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Level Up: AI for Journalists (2024)

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Level Up: AI for Journalists (2024)

This weekly virtual training will help journalists understand critical aspects of the swiftly evolving artificial intelligence landscape, including how it’s developing, building a framework for ethics and standards, how newsrooms are using it and how to fact-check AI.

Training dates that have passed are available for replay. 

October 1, 2024– October 22, 2024

Overview

  • Take your career to the next level with guidance from accomplished journalists and AI experts.
  • Tune in each week for two hours of master-class level instruction.
  • Engage in weekly hands-on sessions that explore a new AI tool.
  • Connect with your peers and exchange ideas in a dedicated Slack channel.
  • Spend 75 minutes on big-picture topics with experts, plus 45 minutes hands-on learning a different free AI tool.
  • This virtual training takes place on Tuesday afternoons from 1-3 p.m. Eastern during October.
  • Register for this program soon to ensure your spot.

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Learning Outcomes

Throughout the program, you will learn how to:

  • Understand the big-picture landscape of artificial intelligence
  • Build an ethical framework for using AI
  • Explore how different newsrooms are using AI
  • Learn how to fact-check AI
  • Test different tools to improve your own workflow, journalism and understanding

$649.00

In stock

Register Now

Overview

  • Take your career to the next level with guidance from accomplished journalists and AI experts.
  • Tune in each week for two hours of master-class level instruction.
  • Engage in weekly hands-on sessions that explore a new AI tool.
  • Connect with your peers and exchange ideas in a dedicated Slack channel.
  • Spend 75 minutes on big-picture topics with experts, plus 45 minutes hands-on learning a different free AI tool.
  • This virtual training takes place on Tuesday afternoons from 1-3 p.m. Eastern during October.
  • Register for this program soon to ensure your spot.

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AI is quickly shaping our world and our industry. If you haven’t had the time to catch up and start to understand the implications, the dangers and the benefits, this course will help you level up. 

This four-week interactive program will provide journalists with big-picture and practical looks at AI, including ethics and standards, fact-checking, and the chance to experiment with some popular tools to improve your own workflow. 

Poynter local news expert and faculty member Kristen Hare, along with a slate of accomplished journalists, will provide master-class level instruction on key concepts including understanding the swiftly changing AI landscape, building ethics policies, standards and practices to use with AI, how newsrooms of all sizes are working with AI, and how to fact-check AI. Sessions will include time to learn and experiment with a new tool each week along with detailed follow-up instructions to help participants make the most of what’s out there in an informed way. 

This online workshop will supercharge journalists with the expertise, in-demand skills and ethical standards necessary to level up with AI. Enroll now to unlock your superstar potential and make a critical advancement towards the next stage of your career.

Questions?

If you need assistance, email us at info@poynter.org.

This online group seminar will take place weekly on Tuesdays from 1-3 p.m. Eastern starting Oct. 1, 2024.

Participants will receive 75 minutes of instruction, followed by 45 minutes of hands-on guided experimentation with a free AI tool.

Expect to walk away from each week’s session with practical strategies and takeaways you can immediately apply to your work.

Below is a tentative schedule:

Week 1:

The AI landscape with Tony Elkins, Poynter faculty

Tool: Chat GPT with Caitlin Dewey

 

Week 2: 

Ethics, standards and legality with Fernanda Camarena, Poynter faculty

Tool: Zapier with Nikita Roy

 

Week 3: 

Adoption and adaptation in newsrooms with Aimee Reinhardt, Associated Press

Tool: Claude with Alex Mahadevan

 

Week 4: 

How to fact-check AI with Katie Sanders, editor, PolitiFact

Tool: Productivity tools with Caitlin Dewey

Training dates that have passed are available for replay. 

Who should enroll

This course is designed for journalists who recognize that an understanding of AI is likely critical to their careers, but aren’t sure where to start. Level Up is right for you if you are AI curious, want to learn more, and desire a strong entry point on your AI education journey. 

Cost

$649

Instructors

Lead Faculty

  • Kristen Hare
    Faculty, Director of Craft and Local News, The Poynter Institute
    Kristen Hare is the Poynter faculty’s director of craft and local news and the author of Local Edition, Poynter’s weekly newsletter for and about local...
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Featured Faculty

  • Tony Elkins
    Faculty
    Tony Elkins, a citizen of the Comanche Nation, is a faculty member at Poynter. His portfolio includes Poynter's early and mid-career leadership workshops Essential Skills...
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  • Fernanda Camarena
    Faculty
    Fernanda Camarena is an award-winning TV and radio reporter and editor who was most recently a manager on NBC News' Standards and Practices team, where...
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  • Katie Sanders
    Editor-in-Chief, PolitiFact
    Katie Sanders is the editor-in-chief of PolitiFact. Previously, she fact-checked talking heads and opinion-shapers for PunditFact as well as the Legislature and Gov. Rick Scott...
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  • Caitlin Dewey
    Freelance Writer
    Caitlin Dewey is a freelance writer and occasional essayist based in Buffalo, New York. She has hired fake boyfriends, mucked out cow barns and braved...
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  • Aimee Rinehart
    Senior Product Manager of AI Strategy for The Associated Press
    Aimee Rinehart is the Senior Product Manager AI Strategy for The Associated Press. Before joining AP, she was the Deputy Director of First Draft’s New York...
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  • Nikita Roy
    AI Futurist, ICFJ Knight fellow
    Nikita Roy is a data scientist, journalist, and Harvard-recognized AI futurist. She is currently a Knight Fellow at the International Center for Journalists, focusing on...
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  • Alex Mahadevan
    MediaWise Director and Poynter Faculty
    Alex Mahadevan is faculty at Poynter and director of MediaWise, Poynter’s digital media literacy project that teaches people of all ages how to spot misinformation...
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