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Today begins the final week to apply for the 2026 Kiplinger Fellowship at Ohio University.
The theme for the May 11-14 fellowship is SAVING LOCAL NEWS with the goal of providing community news leaders with a practical guide to saving and revitalizing their news outlets.
We have commitments from top journalism organizations who will have trainers on hand. We will also showcase small, local news outlets who are experiencing success using their own formulas.
Kiplinger provides a travel stipend to help defer costs, provides accommodations and most meals for the fellowship.
For more information and to apply, please visit:
https://www.ohio.edu/scripps-college/journalism/kiplinger
Use the top menu to find Fellowship, click and go to the application page. Applications close at 11:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 7.

KipProgram The Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism at Ohio University trains professional journalists in ways to create more dynamic and comprehensive coverage of the issues facing us today.

Kiplinger is in Armenia for a week with Ohio University’s Scripps School of Journalism faculty.
We are participating in the Armenia Project and delivering ethics lectures to graduate students at the American University of Armenia.

An expert in AI imaging and fake spotting, our next speaker comes from Australia by way of Toronto.

Patrick Dell is an award-winning visual journalist who has worked in news for more than 25 years.
He was an editor and producer in Australian television before moving to Canada in 2006 and now works in the Visual Journalism team at The Globe and Mail.
Patrick’s current focus is reporting on dis- and misinformation, including generative AI and its impact on our information landscape.

Welcome our next speaker to the 2025 Kiplinger Fellowship.

Samantha Sunne a freelance journalist based in New Orleans. She is the recipient of several national grants and awards for investigative reporting, most recently the ProPublica Local Reporting Network fellowship.
When not on a reporting project, she teaches at conferences, universities and newsrooms around the world, including Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE), the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ).
Her first book, coauthored with trainer Mike Reilley, “Data + Journalism: A Story-Driven Approach to Learning Data Reporting,” was an Amazon bestseller in 2023.

Now, let's meet the 2025 Kiplinger Fellowship's lineup of impressive speakers.

This year's Kiplinger Fellowship in artificial intelligence in journalism brings some of the best trainers and minds on the subject to Ohio University. Our first speaker is widely known for his work with journalists in adapting AI and other technologies to their work.

Jeremy Caplan is Director of Teaching and Learning at CUNY's Newmark Graduate School of Journalism in New York City. Since 2010 he has led the school's Entrepreneurial Journalism Creators Program, a 100-day online-only curriculum for independent journalists around the world.
As a reporter at Time Magazine, Caplan wrote about digital innovation. After studying public policy at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, he earned an MS in Journalism as a Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia University and an MBA at Columbia Business School as a Wiegers Fellow.
Before Caplan was an educator and journalist he was a violinist, serving as Concertmaster of the International Symphony Orchestra in Jerusalem.
He writes the Wonder Tools newsletter to help journalists and other professionals make the most of emerging technology, and he's online at jeremycaplan.com.
He lives in New York City with his wife and two young daughters in New York City, where they spend family time playing elaborate board games, jamming on their classical instruments, and making chocolate desserts.