Gender+AI Reporting Fellowship- ICFJ

July 28, 2025
Application ends: August 20, 2025
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Job Description

The Africa Women Journalism Project (AWJP), in partnership with DW Akademie, invites applications from women journalists in Kenya for the Gender + AI Reporting Fellowship. This program examines the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and gender, with a focus on how emerging technologies affect women and gender-diverse communities in Kenya.

We are looking for 10 women journalists who are eager to explore and learn how AI tools can enhance their reporting.

Instructions

  1. Priority will be given to women journalists residing or working in Nyanza, Western, Rift Valley (including Turkana West), Central, and the Coastal Region.

  2. Please read through the full open call here carefully before completing this form.

  3. All questions are mandatory unless marked optional.

  4. A good understanding of written and spoken English is required.

  5. Failure to upload the required documents will disqualify your application.

Required Documentation

Please prepare the following before you begin

  1. CV

  2. Motivational Statement (See Guide here)

  3. Signed letter of intent to publish. (Download Template here)

  4. Story Pitch

Privacy Notice 

  1. All information collected within this form will remain anonymous and confidential. The data collected will be reviewed by a selection team and may be analysed and combined to be included in the project report.

  2. Any contact shared to facilitate the team to follow up with a respondent will only be accessible to the team members working directly on the project.

  3. We do not sell your data to any third parties

  4. We do not share user data with any third parties beyond our project partners.