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About the Tarbell Center
The Tarbell Center for AI Journalism supports journalism that helps society navigate the emergence of increasingly advanced AI.
Our programmes include:
* Tarbell Fellowship: Our flagship programme provides early career journalists with training, a stipend of up to $50,000, and a 9-month placement at a major newsroom. 2025 placements include Bloomberg, MIT Tech Review, The Verge, The Information, TIME, LA Times, South China Morning Post, and many others.
* Journalists-in-residence: We provide senior writers with funding to pursue longer investigations, explore entrepreneurial projects, and educate themselves on artificial intelligence.
* Tarbell Grants: We provide awards of $1k-$15k for impactful reporting on artificial intelligence and its impacts. We’ve funded journalists writing for WIRED, The New Yorker, and other top outlets.
By 2029, we aim to support 1,000 high-quality stories on AI and scale to an organisation of similar size and prestige to the Pulitzer Center.
About the role
As AI Fellowship Manager, your mission is to scale the impact of our flagship Tarbell Fellowship.
In this role you'll:
* Forge partnerships with more top tier newsrooms. Current placement organisations include Bloomberg, MIT Tech Review, and South China Morning Post. The right person in this role would seek to add 5+ top newsrooms to this list in 2025, e.g. Financial Times, The Guardian, Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal.
* Identify and persuade the next generation of top AI journalists to join the Tarbell Fellowship. With more exceptional fellows, we could facilitate many more placements than we currently do. You’d help grow the Tarbell Fellowship from 10-15 fellows per year to 20+ by 2026.
* Co-create an ambitious 5-year plan for the Tarbell Fellowship. AI capabilities are advancing at an unprecedented rate and we need a strategy which can keep pace. You’ll help identify priority areas within journalism (ranging from AI advancements in China to investigative journalism targeting frontier AI companies) and then develop a plan for how the fellowship can plug those gaps.
Responsibilities
You’ll own the Tarbell Fellowship and be responsible for overseeing all aspects.
Ranked by impact on the overall mission, this might include:
* Strategic partnerships with newsrooms (35%): You'll be the main point of contact with editors at our current partner organisations: Bloomberg, MIT Tech Review, Los Angeles Times, TIME, The Verge, South China Morning Post, The Information, Platformer, The Dispatch, Euractiv, Lawfare, ChinaTalk, and UnderstandingAI. You'll deepen these relationships and forge new partnerships for 2026 and beyond.
* Recruiting top journalists and AI talent (30%): You'll coordinate our marketing strategy, attracting thousands of applications from rising stars around the globe. Once applications are in, you'll run a multi-stage vetting process: reviewing applications, blind-grading writing samples, and interviewing candidates. Ultimately, you'll select our final pool of Tarbell Fellows, ensuring we retain a high bar for excellence.
* Program strategy, growth & team leadership (25%): You’ll act as a strategic partner, co-developing fellowship strategy. This will require identifying gaps in coverage and moving quickly to plug them. Under the right person, the fellowship team could grow significantly by 2026, and we’d like someone who can lead this expansion: hiring, developing, and leading this team.
* Flawless execution of the fellowship (10%): You’ll be responsible for all aspects of the Tarbell Fellowship, either executing tasks directly or overseeing others to do so. A key component here will be ensuring our 10-week AI Journalism Fundamentals course and week-long San Francisco Summit are world-class.
Who might be a good fit
We're looking for an excellent executor with a strong understanding of advanced AI. Prior familiarity with journalism is not required as you'll work closely alongside Anna Gordon, our AI Journalism Lead.
You might be a particularly good fit for this role if you are:
* Organised and competent at project management. We are looking for someone with experience managing complex projects with multiple stakeholders.
* A strong understanding of advanced AI, or the ability to learn this quickly.
* Highly autonomous and proactive. Successful candidates will proactively identify pain points and inefficiencies in our current process and set out to fix them.
* An excellent communicator, both written and verbal.
* Driven to further Tarbell’s mission.
* Bonus points for:
* Journalism experience.
* Experience running similar training programmes.
* Leadership ability, including a track record of effective people management.
We encourage speculative applications; we expect many strong candidates will not meet all of the criteria listed.
Location
Our team is international and we’re open to international candidates working remotely from anywhere. However, we have a preference for candidates based in relevant journalism hubs such as San Francisco, New York, Washington DC, and London (or those who are willing to relocate there).
Benefits
Our benefits include:
* 33 days of paid holiday in total (including national holidays)
* $4,500 annual budget for equipment and office space.
* $5,000 annual budget for personal development and productivity.
* Standard pension, with 3% contribution from employer.
* Flexible work schedule & location.
Application Process
* Round 1: Apply hereby 9 April (midnight Anywhere on Earth).
* Round 2: We’ll invite candidates to complete:
* A 60-minute interview with Cillian.
* A 3-5 hour work task.
* Round 3: A 2 day work trial with our team (in-person in London strongly preferred).
Learn more & apply here: https://www.tarbellfellowship.org/fellowship-manager
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
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