Additional Resources
Want even more reporting resources after going through our worksheet? Here are some of our favorite Pulitzer Center resources (and some from others we love).
AI Foundations
- 10 Takeaways from Journalists at the Forefront of AI Reporting
- Neural Networks (3Blue1Brown)
- Generative AI exists because of the transformer (Financial Times)
- Book: Empire of AI (Karen Hao)
- Book: AI Snake Oil (Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor)
- Better Images of AI: A Guide for Users and Creators (Better Images of AI)
AI Labor
- 🇧🇷 How We Investigated the Human Labor Behind AI
- 🇿🇦 How We Investigated AI Hype To Serve and Empower African Audiences
- 🇷🇺 How I Investigated the Gig Work Feeding the Global Surveillance Industry
Environmental impact
- How We're Investigating Brazil’s Data Center Development Boom
- How We Investigated the Backyard of AI in Spain, Chile, and Mexico
Welfare algorithms
- How We Did It: Unlocking Europe's Welfare Fraud Algorithms
- How We Investigated Amsterdam’s Attempt To Build a ‘Fair’ Fraud Detection Model
- How We Investigated Welfare Algorithms in India (Part I)
- How We Investigated Welfare Algorithms in India (Part II)
- 🇵🇪 The Path Behind the 'Invisibles' Project
AI Bias
- How I Teamed Up With Academics To Investigate Transcription Software
- How I Reported on AI Tools That Can Help or Hinder People With Disabilities
- How I Investigated the Impact of Facial Recognition on Uber Drivers in India
- More than a Glitch (Meredith Broussard)
- Methodology: OpenAI’s GPT is a recruiter’s dream tool. Tests show there’s racial bias (Bloomberg)
- How We Analyzed the COMPAS Recidivism Algorithm (ProPublica)
- TED TALK: How I am Fighting Bias in Algorithms (Dr. Joy Buolamwini)
Mis- and disinformation
- Misinformation on TikTok: How 'Documented' Examined Hundreds of Videos in Different Languages
- How Digital Witness Lab Analyzed Data From BJP WhatsApp Groups Ahead of the Indian Elections
- Guide to Investigating Social Media Algorithms (GIJN)
- Guide to Detecting AI-Generated Content (GIJN)
Surveillance & policing
- How We Investigated Mass Surveillance in Argentina
- How We Investigated Automated and Predictive Technologies at Refugee Camps and Borders in Europe and the U.S.
Investigating companies
- 🇺🇸 How We Investigated the Dating App Company Match Group
- 🇵🇭 Opening the AI 'Black Box': How We Investigated Grab’s Fare System
- 🇵🇭 How PCIJ Investigated Grab’s Surge Pricing Model
Public records
- How We Did It: Unlocking Europe's Welfare Fraud Algorithms
- How To Run a Public Records Audit With a Team of Students
- How AP Investigated the Global Impacts of AI
Using AI for investigations
- How Journalists Can Use Scraping Tools for Environmental Stories
- Geo AI: Environmental Journalism Using Artificial Intelligence
- Journalism + data science projects (investigate.ai)
- Finding Illegal Airstrips with the Help of Machine Learning
- How Non-Coding Journalists Can Build Web Scrapers With AI
- Dipteryx, the Algorithm that Analyzes the Risk of Timber Trafficking (Spanish)
- How Journalists Can Use Amazon Mining Watch To Find Leads


