# OpenAI expands initiatives to support journalism from classrooms to newsrooms

The collaboration provides more than 400 ChatGPT Edu subscriptions to graduate students and faculty for the 2026–2027 academic year.

- The initiative partners with the Tow-Knight Center at Newmark and the Knight Lab at Medill to integrate AI into reporting coursework.
- A renewed partnership with the American Journalism Project provides over 50 member newsrooms with ChatGPT Enterprise access and API credits.
- OpenAI will continue funding AI engineering fellows through the Lenfest Institute and supporting newsroom programs with WAN-IFRA and INMA.

## Why it matters

Graduate journalism students and participating nonprofit newsrooms receive subsidized access to OpenAI tools and infrastructure.

## Sources

- [OpenAI: OpenAI expands initiatives to support journalism from classrooms to newsrooms](https://openai.com/index/supporting-journalism-from-classrooms-to-newsrooms)

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Summarized by dstilled on 2026-09-08. https://dstilled.ai/story/7cec9c96-00f2-4e24-b2f5-d2f33524583d