Students are invited to join this Frank Center Student Workshop with Mike Reilley, senior lecturer of data journalism and multimedia at University of Illinois Chicago; author of Data + Journalism and The Journalist’s Toolbox: A Guide to Digital Reporting and AI; and founder/editor of The Journalist’s Toolbox, a free website featuring AI tools and training videos.
Reilley's workshop will focus on new and useful AI tools for journalists.
For the past decade, Reilley has been teaching Google News Initiative and other digital and AI-driven tools to more than 15,000 journalists and educators in over 500 trainings in 43 states. He’s currently the lead trainer for both the RTDNA/GNI Google Tools Program and the ONA/Microsoft AI in Journalism training program.
He also is co-founder of and trainer with Penny Press Digital LLC, a consulting and training company that has several clients, including Gannett. When he’s not doing trainings, he teaches data and multimedia journalism at UIC, where he is a full-time faculty member.
A former reporter at the LA Times and web editor at the Chicago Tribune, Mike served for 13 years as a faculty member at Northwestern, Arizona State University and DePaul University, teaching digital journalism to hundreds of students and professional journalists. An early adopter of the web, he is one of the 11 founding editors of ChicagoTribune.com.
He holds journalism degrees from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Northwestern University. Mike also runs the Chicago data-driven news site, The Red Line Project.