ProPublica Names Dana Chiueh and Aaron Brezel as Lenfest AI Engineering Fellows — ProPublica

ProPublica has chosen Dana Chiueh and Aaron Brezel as AI engineering fellows as a part of its participation within the Lenfest Institute’s AI Collaborative and Fellowship program, a nationwide information trade effort supported by Microsoft and OpenAI to discover how synthetic intelligence applied sciences can responsibly contribute to the work of mission-driven newsrooms. The Lenfest AI program chosen ProPublica amongst 10 regional and nationwide information organizations for the two-year fellowships.

The ProPublica fellowships are made doable via funding from each the Lenfest Institute and the Patrick J. McGovern Basis.

“We’re thrilled to welcome Dana and Aaron as our first AI engineering fellows,” mentioned Ben Werdmuller, ProPublica’s senior director of expertise. “Their distinctive mixture of technical experience and journalism expertise positions them completely to assist us discover how AI can safely improve investigative reporting whereas sustaining the rigorous requirements, moral ideas and human experience that outline ProPublica’s work.”

Chiueh was most not too long ago a information innovation engineer on the Minnesota Star Tribune, collaborating within the Lenfest program on the newsroom’s behalf. She was a recipient of a Brown Institute Magic Grant for growing Tipbot, a device that automates the gathering of lacking info from submitted ideas, and beforehand reported for The Dallas Morning Information and Los Angeles Occasions, amongst others.

Brezel joins ProPublica from the Brown Institute for Media Innovation, the place he was lead software program engineer. Earlier than that, he was a software program engineer at The Washington Submit, the place, as a founding member of the reporting instruments group, he constructed software program for journalists throughout the newsroom.

About ProPublica
ProPublica is an unbiased, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism within the public curiosity. With a group of greater than 150 devoted journalists, ProPublica covers a spread of subjects, specializing in tales with the potential to spur real-world influence. Its reporting has contributed to the passage of latest legal guidelines; reversals of dangerous insurance policies and practices; and accountability for leaders at native, state and nationwide ranges. Because it started publishing in 2008, ProPublica has obtained eight Pulitzer Prizes, 5 Peabody Awards, eight Emmy Awards and 16 George Polk Awards.

In regards to the Lenfest Institute for Journalism 
The Lenfest Institute creates options for the subsequent period of native information by investing in sustainable enterprise fashions on the intersection of native journalism, accountable use of expertise and repair to group in Philadelphia and nationwide. 

In regards to the Patrick J. McGovern Basis
The Patrick J. McGovern Basis is a philanthropic group devoted to advancing synthetic intelligence and information science options to create a thriving, equitable and sustainable future for all. PJMF works in partnership with public, non-public and social establishments to drive progress on our most urgent challenges, together with digital well being, local weather change, broad digital entry and information maturity within the social sector.