This 6-week program with participants from media outlets in 16 countries aims to enable digital-native and small media organizations to improve and implement artificial intelligence tools in their newsrooms.
To achieve this goal, participants will learn from experts in the Artificial Intelligence industry and will receive support to implement programs within their newsrooms.
These are the 19 participants who will have access to the program, along with Jiménez MacKellar:
- Rebecca Appel (United Kingdom): audience development coordinator at TRF News.
- Emmanuel Chenze (Kenya): head of data and fact-checking at Africa Uncensored.
- Chantal Verkroost (Netherlands): fundraising coordinator at Bellingcat.
- Osama Abdelrahman (Egypt): social media coordinator at Mada Masr.
- Ajibola Amzat (Nigeria): editor at the International Center for Investigative Reporting (ICIR).
- Rute Correia (Portugal): director of Interruptor.
- Lee Mwiti (South Africa): editor at Africa Check.
- Saja Mortada (Lebanon) investigative and data journalist at Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ).
- Alastair Otter (South Africa): developer and manager at The Outlier.
- Daniel Rzasa (Poland): editor-in-chief at 300Gospodarka.
- Nilgün Yılmaz (Turkey): editor at Teyit.
- Frederik Kulager (Denmark): technology reporter at Zetland.
- Erlends Calabuig (Belgium): CEO of Euranet Plus.
- Dímitra Létsa(Sweden): CEO of Moonshot News.
- Sabin Muzaffar (United Arab Emirates): founder and executive editor of AnankeMag.
- José Manuel Cuevas (Spain): editor at El Orden Mundial.
- Rana Daoud (Lebanon): executive producer at Sowt.
- Amanda Strydom (South Africa): senior program manager at CivicSignal atCode for Africa.
- Arnold Khachaturov (Russia): head of data at Novaya Gazeta.
Maldita.es’s mission is to provide citizens with tools, technologies and information so they can make informed decisions; this program will allow the implementation of new tools that facilitate our journalists’ workflow and provide more and better tools to the community.