The Online News Association is offering two opportunities specifically for freelancers to learn ways to leverage AI tools to streamline the reporting process. Add them to your calendar:
- Led by Mike Reilley, the 60-minute AI for Freelancers Training on May 14 will cover AI basics and how tools can help you be more efficient with story pitches and pitch letters, manage your workflow, brainstorm story ideas, write FOIA requests, do research and more. We’ll also go over how to write prompts, discuss checking freelance contracts for AI use limits and disclosing any AI use in reporting your story to your editors. Participants get a handout with links to all the tools and some practice exercises.
- Then, join us again for the AI Mini-Lab for Freelancers on June 4 for a low-stakes, 45-minute hands-on workshop, where we’ll work with the tools from the previous training to brainstorm ideas, write pitch letter outlines, FOIA requests and more. Participants get a handout with links to all the tools and some practice exercises.
Registration is free for both sessions, thanks to generous support from AI in Journalism Initiative funders Microsoft, the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation and The Joyce Foundation.