Training Hands-on AI for Journalists: an intensive bootcamp AI is radically changing journalism, but many of us are still dabbling. This small-group, in-person bootcamp teaches you to use generative AI effectively and confidently in your day-to-day work. You'll learn essential AI skills across the editorial process - from brief and research through copy and publication - with workflows you can immediately apply to enhance your work. * [How confident are you using AI? Take a test](https://ai-training.scoreapp.com/) The hands-on element is what sets thi By Marcela Kunova • 2 min read
job_listing Senior Journalist - Ireland The Racing Post is looking for an exceptional senior journalist to join our award-winning editorial team. * Employer: Racing Post * Salary: Competitive * Location: Remote * Employment type: Full-time * Contract: Permanent * Closing date: 16 October 2026 The Racing Post is looking for an exceptional senior journalist to join our award-winning editorial team. You will be responsible for delivering exclusive stories on Irish horseracing, covering the sport on and off the track. As an experi By Marcela Kunova • 2 min read
Training Proofreading: what AI still misses A machine can't be the last careful human read. It takes a person to catch the name spelled wrong, the figure that's out, the wrong phrasing that slipped through. Miss them, and your reader finds them first. Your brand pays for it. AI spots the obvious - the double word, the missing letter. It hands your copy back with new mistakes folded in: a line that reads perfectly but means the wrong thing. A careful 'may' becomes a flat 'does'. Plausible, clean, but wrong. AI can tell you what sounds ri By Marcela Kunova • 2 min read
Training Sub-editing skills: live Zoom course Your writing should never get in the way of what you have to say. That is what a sharp edit buys you, and what a rough draft loses. Your trainer is Martin Lloyd, who spent ten years as the BBC's writing standards editor. In a single live day, he shows you how to take a tangled draft and make it sharp and persuasive: simpler language, a clearer angle, a structure that carries the argument. What AI writes is smooth, competent, flat. It hands you a draft that reads fine but misses the point, or l By Marcela Kunova • 2 min read
Hedi Mehrez (left) and Jess Flaherty (right) News Behind Reach's cuts: two journalists telling their own story Reach is cutting around 160 editorial jobs and closing three local titles. Behind the numbers are journalists like Jess Flaherty and Hedi Mehrez, living through a second round of cuts and a masthead's final months By Marcela Kunova • 4 min read
freelancer Joanna Scott Art Expert - From commercial illustration to participation * Remote * Availability: available * Works in: illustration * Beats: Arts & Culture * 30 years' experience * Rate: Negotiable I've worked as an illustrator, art director and participation artist for 30 years. * Art website By Marcela Kunova • 1 min read
freelancer Milan Jovicic Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Apfel Patient * Remote * Availability: available * Works in: writing * Beats: Technology * 7 years' experience * Rate: Negotiable Milan Jovicic is the founder and editor-in-chief of Apfelpatient, an Apple news publication. * LinkedIn https://www.apfelpatient.de/author/milan-jovicic By Marcela Kunova • 1 min read
freelancer Duncan Slater Production editor, copy editor & sub-editor | Print & digital * Remote * Availability: available * Works in: writing, editing * Beats: Sport & Leisure * 25 years' experience * Rate: Negotiable 25+ years in print and digital: subbing, production, research, fact-checking, CMS and content QA. By Marcela Kunova • 1 min read
Image generated from Magic Media by Canva News 15 must-read newsletters about AI for journalists Are you overwhelmed by all the talk of algorithms and language models? We picked a handful of newsletters that can help you make sense of it all By Marcela Kunova • 8 min read
Brian Hopman (left) and Conor Molumby (right) News Can a shared "language" for AI tools fix the newsroom's context problem? Newsroom AI tools are smart on their own but clueless together, forcing journalists to do the joining up by hand. AP and Reuters want to change that with a shared standard that lets tools talk across the entire production chain, from newsgathering to publication By Marcela Kunova • 3 min read
freelancer Sarah Harvey Travel journalist with a background in news | Maldives expert | content creator * Remote * Willing to travel * Availability: available * Works in: writing, editing * Beats: Travel & Hospitality * 15 years' experience * Rate: Negotiable Native English-speaker specialising in the Maldives, Sri Lanka, Riviera Maya, Valencia & Cote d'Azur * Portfolio & bio By Marcela Kunova • 1 min read
freelancer Susan Fourtane Journalist - Science, Technology, Startups, DeepTech, Space, Innovation * Remote * Willing to travel * Availability: available * Works in: writing * Beats: Technology * 20 years' experience * Rate: Negotiable Two decades of experience covering AI, emerging tech, startups, robotics, photonics, future society. * Portfolio By Marcela Kunova • 1 min read