WSJ’s Volz named Kiplinger fellow

Wall Street Journal reporter Dustin Volz has been named a fellow in The Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism at Ohio University.

The journalists will be on campus March 24-28 and have residence at the Ohio University Inn while attending workshops on artificial intelligence in Schoonover Center and Alden Library.

“This fellowship in AI produced a record number of applications for Kiplinger since coming to OU in 2019. We had more than 450 professional journalists apply, which is a statement as to how AI is impacting journalism on a global scale,” said Kiplinger executive director Kevin Z. Smith in a statement. “These 28 fellows come from varied background, platforms and cultures, but face the same challenges of understanding how to integrate AI into their work.”

The fellows will participate in workshops on writing and editing in AI, AI and audio, fake spotting AI generated content, AI’s use in data journalism as well as the legal and ethical bounds of AI use.

Volz is a Washington-based cybersecurity and intelligence reporter for The Journal. His coverage focuses on the national security and geopolitical dimensions of nation-state hacking conflict, digital espionage, online influence operations, election interference, and government surveillance.