Grant funded stories recently have included a TIME cover story by @billyperrigo.bsky.social, an investigation into Anduril’s UK lobbying by @tbij.bsky.social, and a deep-dive into AI’s climate impact by MIT Tech Review.

Explore more stories our grantees have published: tarbellfellowship.org/grants

We’re seeking reporting pitches focused on five key AI beats.

Open to freelancers and staff writers. Grants can fund any reporting costs, including your time and labor.

This round, we're focusing on forward-looking stories examining how today's AI developments and policy decisions lay the groundwork for how AI will shape our future.

We're hoping to fund investigative or feature-length pieces in five critical AI beats:

Announcing the return of Tarbell Grants: $1,000-$15,000+ for original reporting on AI and its impacts.

Journalism plays an essential role in communicating AI developments to the public—and holding AI companies and policymakers to account.

mood

Had a great time to #ijf25 two weeks ago!

Was great to talk about AI's impacts—on society and on media—and what we can do to positively shape.

our shared language around perception and how to play with it is underdeveloped.

for example I was recently dumbstruck when I realized that my visual field is shaped like a horizontal oval.

seeing visual perception this way can feel really liberating!

From essay earlier this year:

Every few months I re-listen to David Foster Wallace's "This is Water" commencement speech and it's even better than I remember it.

Here's the start