Training in AI Technologies

Receive fully-funded, hands-on AI training in your newsroom.

The LNA Shared Services Hub offers 12 customized AI training sessions, including those for writing, editing, fact-checking, image and video creation, mapping and data. These sessions are brought directly to your newsroom.

Hannah Carroll

Learn more about the 11 unique sessions offered. If any of these programs sound like they would be of interest to your newsroom, please register here. The Medill LNA team will get back to you to discuss a plan of action.

  • Fact-Checking Tools and Best Practices
    • Explore ways to fight misinformation and disinformation.
    • Dive into tools including reverse image search and Google Fact-Check Explorer.
    • Break down doctored video and audio.
    • Track disinformation spreaders on social channels.
  • Introduction to AI Tools
    • Learn how to harness AI’s time-saving tools.
    • Create AI-generated photo illustrations.
    • Address the ethical and legal issues that surround AI.
  • AI Reporting Tools for Journalists Lab
    • Explore how AI tools can help write headlines, offer writing tips, summarize interviews and add photo illustrations.
    • Learn how the use of AI to write stories decreases accuracy.
    • Discuss the legal and ethical ramifications of AI.
  • AI Editing Tools
    • Explore free editing tools to improve efficiency.
    • Learn how to write AI prompts to refine and correct SEO headlines.
    • Work with standalone editing tools, including THSRS, LosetheVery.com, Quillbot, Hemingway App, Eleven Labs, custom GPTs, Headline Hero and LLM Adviser.
  • Prompt Writing 101 (and 201–more advanced session)
    • Practice writing AI prompts.
    • Learn how to train ChatGPT to present information in different formats.
  • Image and Video Creation
    • Practice using prompts to create images and videos.
    • Use tools and techniques to fact-check AI-generated images.
  • Data Journalism
    • Learn the fundamentals of data-scraping web pages and pdfs.
    • Build graphics with Flourish.
  • Google Earth Tools
    • Learn how to use Google Earth to create flyover videos and timelapses.
    • Mine historical satellite imagery for stories.
  • AI Tools Lab 201
    • Work with video and deep analysis using Notebook and Pinpoint.
    • Use MyLens to build basic charts and timelines.
    • Develop interactive news quizzes using Google Opal.
    • Explore a customizable search engine and a chatbot with strong privacy.
  • AI Reporting and Custom GPTs
    • Discover free ChatGPT custom GPTs for journalists.
  • Developing an AI Policy
    • Begin building an AI policy and disclosure for your newsroom.
Hannah Carroll

About our AI expert

All AI sessions will be taught by Mike Reilley, who is a lecturer in digital journalism at the University of Illinois Chicago for the past decade and is the lead trainer for the ONA/ Microsoft AI in Journalism program and the RTDNA Google News Initiative training program. He also owns Penny Press Digital, LLC, a digital consulting company.

Mike has trained more than 14,000 journalists, students and teachers in digital tools since 2016, speaking at conferences, journalism schools and in newsrooms in 42 states. He has done more than 495 trainings in the Google program and dozens more for other clients such as Gannett, the Dow Jones News Fund, RTDNA, Report for America, the Carter Center for Mental Health Journalism and many more.

He specializes in AI, data, digital and mobile tools in his trainings.