OpenAI expands initiatives to support journalism from classrooms to newsrooms

OpenAI is launching a program to support journalism education by providing over 400 ChatGPT Edu subscriptions to graduate students and faculty at CUNY's Newmark J-School and Northwestern's Medill School for the 2026-2027 academic year. The initiative aims to help the next generation of journalists learn to use AI thoughtfully and responsibly for tasks like analyzing records, translating stories, uncovering patterns in datasets, and improving reporting. OpenAI plans to expand these efforts across the broader journalism education ecosystem through partnerships with journalism schools.