WAN-IFRA WIN Advisory partners from Africa, the Arab Region and Southeast Asia are encouraged to apply to take part in the WAN-IFRA Women in News Digital ABCs capacity building programme ‘Age of AI in the Newsroom’. 

The programme was originally developed within the EU4IndependentMedia programme, of which WAN-IFRA is a consortium partner, and is now being made available exclusively to WAN-IFRA WIN partners. 

The Age of AI, or Module E of the WAN-IFRA Women in News Digital ABCs series is an interactive 8-week programme to impart the foundations and implications around generative AI on the news media industry, while facilitating peer exchange and networking between WAN-IFRA WIN media partners.

Delivered through 5 sequential lessons which culminate in a final assignment, participants will walk through the newsroom and operation applications of the new technology alongside ethics of adopting the rapidly changing technology. Each lesson is accompanied by an assignment that must be completed in order to progress to the next lesson. 

Lyndsey Jones, course architect, will lead this programme which will be delivered through a series of 5 live global webinars and one to two smaller webinars per region running between May and June 2024.

The media with the top assignment within each region  – as voted on by your peers – will travel to Zurich in October 2024 to take part in the WAN-IFRA Newsroom Summit 2024. 

Application deadline: Thursday, 18 April 2024

The Webinar schedule will follow as such: 

• Webinar 1: Thursday 2 May, 2024 @9:00 CAT 
• Webinar 2: Thursday 16 May, 2024 @9:00 CAT 
• Webinar 3: Thursday 30 May, 2024 @9:00 CAT 
• Regional Tutorials Thursday 6 June @9:00 CAT 
• Webinar 4: Thursday 13 June, 2024 @9:00 CAT 
• Regional Tutorials Thursday 20 June @9:00 CAT – peer review and voting of best project
• Webinar 5: Thursday 27 June, 2024 @9:00 CAT 

Please note, successful candidates should have a strong working knowledge of English. While course content and live interactions through webinars will be delivered in English, Arabic and Bahasa, all assignments throughout the programme must be submitted in English. There are a total of 5 assignments. The total approximate time investment required by participants is 1-2 hours per week for a period of 9 weeks, including assignments.

Please remember your registration details for this website, because you will be needing them during the course of the programme, in order to join all the webinars held for Module E.

If you are facing any issues with the application form, please contact us via email at info@womeninnews.org