Mike Reilley

Mike Reilley is a senior lecturer in data and digital journalism and a full-time faculty member at the University of Illinois Chicago. He is co-author of "Data + Journalism" (Routledge 2023) with ProPublica journalist Samantha Sunne. He is working on his second textbook, "The Journalist's Toolbox Handbook", which will be out on Routledge in 2024.

He also is an SPJ digital trainer who has taught Google News Initiative and other data/digital tools to more than 14,000 journalists and educators in in 41 states over the past seven years. He also is co-founder of and trainer with Penny Press Digital LLC, a consulting and training company he founded in 2018.

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. He holds journalism degrees from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (undergrad) and Northwestern University (masters).

Mike founded and updates the research site The Journalist’s Toolbox (journaliststoolbox.org) and runs the Chicago urban issues news site, The Red Line Project (redlineproject.news). Twitter: @journtoolbox