Brant Houston

Brant is the Knight Foundation Chair in Investigative and Enterprise Reporting at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and heads the online newsroom CU-CitizenAccess.org, a lab for digital innovation and data journalism at Illinois.

Houston previously served as Executive Director of the Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) and co-founded the Global Investigative Journalism Network and the Institute of Nonprofit News (INN).

Before joining IRE, he was an award-winning investigative reporter at daily newspapers for 17 years.

Houston wrote “Computer-Assisted Reporting: A Practical Guide,” and co-authored “The Investigative Reporter’s Handbook.” He has taught and spoken about investigative and computer-assisted reporting at newsrooms and universities in 25 countries.