The New York Times
Fellow, A.I. Initiatives
$82K
New York, NY · Full-time · Posted Oct 19, 2026
- Experience
- No more than five years of full-time professional experience in journalism and/or machine learning.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must be authorized to work in the United States. Work visas are not sponsored; applicants with valid work authorization or a valid student visa extendable through Optional Practical Training may be considered.
About the job
Supports newsroom investigations by developing and applying AI, machine-learning, and data-science methods in collaboration with journalists.
What you'll do
- Collaborate with investigative reporters on AI-supported research, transcription, translation, document search, language analysis, and computer-vision projects.
- Identify opportunities and experiment with responsible AI tools for newsroom use.
- Participate in fellowship training and social programs.
What they ask for
- Technical proficiency and experience analyzing data, developing applications, and researching with machine-learning models.
- Editorial experience, such as a newsroom internship or college newspaper work.
- Engineering experience with APIs, front-end web applications, and databases; recent experience with LLMs and other machine-learning models.
- Interest in journalism and AI, plus understanding of ethical considerations in AI journalism.
Nice to have
- Multiple journalism internships or equivalent experience; demonstrated application of AI to real-world problems.
- Experience with large datasets and cloud computing platforms, or Svelte or similar front-end frameworks.
Pay
$82,414.80 — $82,414.80 USD (base salary)
Tools
APIs, LLMs, Svelte
AI focus
Applies AI, machine learning, and data science to investigative journalism, including research, transcription, translation, document search, language analysis, and computer vision; explores responsible AI tools for newsroom use.
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