2026 Fellows

We are pleased to introduce the 2026 cohort of the Tarbell Fellowship. Following a 9-week AI Journalism Fundamentals program and a journalism summit in San Francisco, CA, these journalists embark on a year-long journey to cover artificial intelligence at a variety of outlets across the globe. Our fellows will be reporting from newsrooms across four continents and range from award-winning investigative journalists to computer science PhDs.

Ella Chakarian
Los Angeles Times
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John Croxton
Defense One
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Peter Hall
Scientific American
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Cain Hillier
Newcomer
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Tom Howarth
Science
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Dan Kagan-Kans
Understanding AI
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Amit Katwala
MIT Technology Review
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Lisa Klaassen
Lawfare
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Jack Kubinec
The Dispatch
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Tiffany Li
The Information
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Katie McQue
NPR
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Aditya Mehta
TechCrunch
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Chong Ming Lee
South China Morning Post
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Destiny Muller
The Seattle Times
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Danai Nesta Kupemba
Rest of World
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Isabel O’Brien
CNBC
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Juan Pablo Pérez Burgos
The San Francisco Standard
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Shaun Raviv
CBS News
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Greta Reich
USA TODAY
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Wen Shao
Fortune
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Mark Wilding
Bureau of Investigative Journalism
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Nilesh Christopher
Los Angeles Times, 2025 – 2027
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Robert Hart
The Verge, 2025 – 2027
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Michelle Kim
MIT Tech Review, 2025 – 2027
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Ella Markianos
Platformer, 2025 – 2027
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Past Fellows

Since our first cohort in 2023, the Tarbell Fellowship has hosted many talented and accomplished journalists, and we’re proud to continue to feature them here. Check out the links in their profiles to find out what they’ve been up to since completing their fellowships!

Vincent Chow
South China Morning Post, 2025 – 2026
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Nick Corvino
China Talk, 2025 – 2026
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Aisha Down
The Guardian, 2025 – 2026
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Agnee Ghosh
Bloomberg, 2025 – 2026
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Jonathan Gibson
The Dispatch, 2025 – 2026
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Jakub Kraus
Lawfare, 2025 – 2026
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Nikita Ostrovsky
TIME, 2025 – 2026
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Kai Williams
Understanding AI, 2025 – 2026
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Anna Gordon
TIME, 2023 – 2024
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Avi Ackermann
Coda, 2023 – 2024
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Celina Zhao
2025
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Effie Webb
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, 2025 – 2026
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Elissa Welle
The Verge, 2025 – 2026
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Harry Booth
TIME, 2024 – 2025
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Jacob Wulff Wold
Euractiv, 2024 – 2025
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Jared Perlo
NBC News, 2025 — 2026
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Kevin Frazier
Lawfare, 2024 — 2025
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Laura González Salmerón
2023 – 2024
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Lauren Gilbert
2023 – 2024
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Lynette Bye
Transformer, 2024 – 2025
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Mathias Gjesdal Hammer
TIME, 2023 – 2024
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Rocket Drew
The Information, 2024 – 2026
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Scott J Mulligan
MIT Tech Review, 2024 – 2025
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Tharin Pillay
TIME, 2024 – 2026
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Will Henshall
TIME, 2023 – 2024
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Yasmin Rafiei
2023 – 2024
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The Tarbell Team

Our goal is for reporting about AI to be treated with at least the urgency of other societal-scale challenges such as climate change