Mike Reilley is the author of two books, “Data + Journalism” Routledge (2023) and “The Journalist’s Toolbox: A Guide to Digital Reporting and AI” (Routledge, January 2024).

He is the lead trainer for the RTDNA-Google News Initiative Election Fact-Checking Program and the ONA/Microsoft AI in Journalism program.

Mike speaks and teaches at national, regional and local journalism conferences, writes for various publications and trains journalists on data visualization, Google tools, verification, social media and other multimedia storytelling tools.

Mike’s full-time gig: A senior lecturer who teaches data and digital journalism at UIC in Chicago. He also owns Penny Press Digital, LLC, a digital consulting company that works with news companies on digital development projects and training.

Previously, Mike was the director of digital production and professor of practice at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism. He served for six years as a faculty member at DePaul University’s College of Communication in the journalism program.

A former reporter and copy editor at the LA Times, Mike also was one of the founding members of ChicagoTribune.com. He taught journalism for four years at Northwestern University before working at WashingtonPost.com and AOL in 2000-01. He’s an “early adopter” of digital technologies, writing his first line of HTML in 1995.

At UIC, Mike’s data and digital journalism classes produce multimedia stories for the award-winning The Red Line Project, which covers news and urban issues in Chicago neighborhoods.

Mike is the founder of the journalism resource site, Journalist’s Toolbox AI. Read more in his bio and resume.