Intersections of Journalism with Computer Science & Data
Brant Houston
Thursday, 30 Apr 2015 at 3:00 pm – Oak Room, Memorial Union
A reception will precede the event, 2:30-3:00 pm.Brant Houston is a professor and Knight Chair of Investigative Reporting in the College of Media at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. He will discuss how computer-assisted reporting has become an integral part of journalism and how increased collaboration between journalists and computer scientists has led to more sophisticated reporting. Houston is the author of four editions of the textbook Computer-Assisted Reporting: A Practical Guide and co-author of the fourth and fifth editions of the Investigative Reporter's Handbook. He is co-founder of the Global Investigative Journalism Network and chair of the Board of Directors for the Investigative News Network, which he helped launch in 2009. College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Signature Research Initiative
In addition to teaching, Brant Houston oversees the online newsroom in the University of Illinois Journalism Department and is working on projects on new business models for journalism and on new technologies for news-gathering with colleagues in Informatics and at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science.
He became the Knight chair after serving for more than a decade as the executive director of Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), a 5,000-member organization, and as a professor at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Before joining IRE, he was an award-winning investigative reporter at daily newspapers for 17 years.
Cosponsored By:
- Computer Science
- Greenlee School of Journalism & Mass Communication
- Political Science
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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