$1,499.00 USD

AI Upgrade for Journalists

Ready to future-proof your journalism with AI?

Enroll in our Fall 2025 cohort and gain the skills, workflows, and guidance to responsibly integrate AI into every stage of the reporting process. This course is built for working journalists—reporters, editors, freelancers—who want to use AI tools without losing their voice, values, or standards.

Start Date: Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Session Time: Weekly from 12:00–1:30 PM ET (Wednesdays)
Duration: 6 weeks

What You’ll Learn:

  • Accelerate source discovery and background research
  • Draft and revise with AI while maintaining your tone
  • Frame and pitch stories using AI-enhanced insights
  • Visualize data and simplify complex reporting
  • Build and test custom GPTs for your beat
  • Complete a capstone project tailored to your workflow

Enrollment is open now.
(Discounts available for NGOs, educators, freelancers, and group registrations. Contact: [email protected])

What People Are Saying:

Great course! AI is WAY more than just writing now. Journalists don't need AI to do their writing; but they can use AI tools to deepen their research, reveal thoughtful angles, and find valuable stories in complex data. The AI Upgrade for Journalists course introduces the best of these tools, and teaches the best ways to embed them into the reporting process.

Mark Sullivan, Senior Writer at Fast Company

Fantastic course! Good pacing and perfect mix of instructors. Each took their turn while the other two engaged with us in the chat window. Very well organized and resources galore! Helpful in many ways. I link to many of their tools off JournalistsToolbox.ai. They taught me how to build a Custom GPT for the site, too. I'm going to incorporate that into my undergrad AI Journalism class at UIC in the fall. Also showed me some new things to do with Notebook LM, which I had been using for a while, but not to its full potential

Mike Reilley, Founder of The Journalist's Toolbox

I'm a journalist and lecturer at a small university, where I teach non-creative writing workshops. This course is highly relevant—AI has become an essential skill for writers. It was very positive. The course focuses on real-life examples and techniques, but it's not as simple as "use this prompt" or "try this function". In a field that changes quickly, it's important to understand why things work the way they do and to learn how to adapt.

Ivo Silvestro, Journalist & Researcher