Journalism meets public-interest technology
The Public Tech Media Lab (PTML) operates at the intersection of journalism and public interest technologies. Our objective is to support newsrooms in the development and implementation of open-source tools for digital investigations, and to design artificial intelligence systems oriented toward the public good.
We aim to reinforce journalists’ professional autonomy, institutional accountability, and commitment to transparency. As such, the Lab serves as a collaborative sandbox for journalists, technologists, and academics from different disciplines, where the ethical implications of emerging technologies can be collectively explored, solved, and anticipated.
What the numbers say
The Public Tech Media Lab is a growing global network of scholars, journalists, and practitioners working on public interest technologies and journalism
95+
Associated fellows and researchers from universities and newsrooms across five continents
3,750+
Social media followers, with a network that keeps growing every month
250+
Journalists and practitioners trained in open source intelligence through our bootcamps and workshops
$200K
In research and training funding secured since the Lab was founded
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