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AI now drafts copy, edits text, transcribes audio and produces first pass translations, so writers, editors and translators need training to prompt it well, catch its errors and keep their judgment and ethics in charge of the final words.

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AI Fluency: Framework & FoundationsAnthropic AcademyYou learn the 4D framework of Delegation, Description, Discernment and Diligence for working with AI systems, plus how generative AI works, its capabilities and limits, and effective prompting techniques. A final assessment earns a certificate.CertificateFree4 hrsalt+Ignite: AI Literacy for All, Develop Personal Guidelines, Educate and Empower Others (Poynter MediaWise)The Poynter InstituteYou learn how AI works, create content with it ethically, check AI answers with verification tools, guard your privacy against scams, and write a personal AI guidelines document you can share with others.CertificateFree3 hrsOpenAI Academy: AI FoundationsOpenAI AcademyYou learn the core practices for using ChatGPT at work: writing stronger prompts, giving context, checking outputs and using AI responsibly, applied to drafting, summarizing, planning and meeting prep. Scoring 80% or higher on the assessment earns a badge.CertificateFree60 to 75 minGoogle AI Tools for Journalists: Optimizing Editorial Workflow, Content Creation and Audience Engagement (Knight Center)Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas (University of Texas at Austin)You practice prompting and responsible AI use, search document piles with Pinpoint and NotebookLM, create content with Google's generative AI, and look at ways AI can support a newsroom's business model.TrainingFreeHow to use ChatGPT and other generative AI tools in your newsrooms (Knight Center, on demand)Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas (University of Texas at Austin)You get a plain look past the hype at how generative AI works, where it can help a newsroom, and what risks reporters and editors should weigh before starting with tools like ChatGPT.TrainingFreeSelf pacedIntro to AI Translation with DeepL (Codecademy)CodecademyYou find your way around DeepL, adjust formality and tone, translate everything from casual messages to technical documentation, and polish clarity and grammar with DeepL Write.TrainingFree1 hrPrompt Engineering 101 for Journalists (Knight Center, on demand)Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas (University of Texas at Austin)You learn what large language models are, write prompts built for reporting and editing tasks, set up simple no code automations, and look at AI image tools and their ethics for newsrooms.TrainingFreeTechnical Communication and Artificial Intelligence (Minnesota State University, Mankato on Coursera)Minnesota State University, MankatoYou write an instruction set and a troubleshooting knowledge base for a real audience, use AI prompts to support but not replace your drafting, then revise, edit and proofread the result.CertificateSee details16 hrsGoogle AI for Content Creation (Google AI Professional Certificate, course 5)Google Career CertificatesYou learn to turn a rough idea into custom images and short videos with Gemini, Imagen and Veo 3, set design rules for the AI to follow, and ask Gemini for a creative review of your work.Certificate$492 hrsGoogle Prompting EssentialsGoogle Career CertificatesYou practice a five step prompting framework (task, context, references, evaluate, iterate) to draft text, summarize documents, fix spreadsheet formulas and build presentations. Later courses cover prompt chaining, chain of thought prompting and saving prompts for reuse.Certificate$4910 hrsAI for Journalists and Content Creators: From Understanding to Application (Poynter)The Poynter InstituteYou compare ChatGPT, Claude and NotebookLM on real tasks, benchmark tools for speed, accuracy and bias, and apply journalism ethics to verifying AI content and writing newsroom AI policy.Certificate$954 to 5 hrsAI and Editing: Uses, Drawbacks and Ethics (Poynter)The Poynter InstituteYou learn what generative AI is, when an editor should and should not use it, which tools help communicators, and how to disclose AI use to your audience using a framework for ethical decisions.Training$125 and upSelf pacedAI Tools for the Modern Communicator: Technology, Ethics and Future Trends, Part 1 (PRSA)Public Relations Society of America (PRSA)You learn generative and predictive AI basics, how AI changes chatbots, content, analytics and crisis work in PR, which tools fit campaigns and media relations, and how bias, privacy and new laws affect your practice.Certificate$450 and up3 hrsWriting with Generative AI (UC Davis)University of California, DavisYou learn how large language models produce text, how to set purpose, audience and tone before you prompt, what AI user agreements mean for ownership and privacy, and how to judge an AI draft before you use it.CertificatePrice not published6 hrsOpenAI Academy for News OrganizationsOpenAI AcademyYou learn ways newsrooms use ChatGPT for background research, translation and multilingual reporting, data analysis and production, and how to set internal AI policies, through on demand lessons and webinar replays.TrainingVaries
IntermediateBuild on the basics. Some experience or a first certificate helps.6
Generative AI for journalists: Discovering what data can do (Knight Center, on demand)Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas (University of Texas at Austin)You learn what AI models are, then use them to pull facts and structure out of your own documents and run models yourself, ending with a project that puts the steps together for a story.TrainingFreeMicrosoft Learn: Draft, analyze, and present with Microsoft Copilot (MS 4018 learning path)Microsoft Learn / Microsoft CredentialsYou practice the everyday Copilot prompts an office runs on: drafting documents in Word, building decks in PowerPoint, finding insights in Excel, getting more from Teams meetings and moving your Outlook inbox from triage to action.TrainingFreeSelf pacedGenAI for PR Specialists (Coursera GenAI Academy)CourseraYou practice using ChatGPT and AI workflows to draft PR content, personalize media outreach and plan crisis responses, while applying responsible AI and data ethics checks.CertificateSee details2 hrsCustomizing DeepL and ChatGPT for Medical Translation (ATA on demand webinar)American Translators Association (ATA)You set up glossary driven DeepL and ChatGPT workflows for medical texts, compare engine outputs to pick the best rendering, and use regex to fix units, typography and formatting automatically.TrainingFree if eligible60 minAI Tools for the Modern Communicator: Technology, Ethics and Future Trends, Part 2 (PRSA)Public Relations Society of America (PRSA)You apply the PRSA Code of Ethics to AI dilemmas, practice writing and refining prompts while watching for hallucinations, and weigh how regulation, content ownership and misinformation will shape PR work.Certificate$300 and up1 hrRWS Linguistic AI Certification TrainingRWS (Trados)You learn how neural machine translation and LLMs produce output, how content shapes MT design, how to test MT quality, and which post editing level and practices fit each job.TrainingPrice not publishedSelf paced
AdvancedFor experienced pros. Most require years in the field.1
AI Workflows for CAT Tools: Using Large TMs, Corpora, and RAG (ATA on demand webinar)American Translators Association (ATA)You connect AI and retrieval augmented generation to your CAT tool for context aware searches, index translation memories with millions of segments, convert bilingual files and bring corpora into daily work.Training$70 and up90 min

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