Mike is the author of two books, "Data + Journalism" and "The Journalist's Toolbox: A Guide to Digital Reporting and AI". He is the lead trainer for the ONA/Microsoft AI in Journalism training program and the RTDNA-Google Election Fact-Checking program.
When he’s not doing trainings, he teaches data and multimedia journalism at the University of Illinois-Chicago, where he has been a full-time faculty member for eight years. A former reporter at the LA Times and a founding web editor at the Chicago Tribune, Mike served for 13 years as a faculty member at Northwestern, Arizona State University and DePaul University.
He holds journalism degrees from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (undergrad) and Northwestern University (masters). Mike founded and updates the site Journalist’s Toolbox AI (
journaliststoolbox.ai) and runs the Chicago data site, The Red Line Project (redlineproject.news)
Twitter: @journtoolbox |
Email: mikereilley1@gmail.com |
Bio and vitae: MikeReilley.com
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