Houston, Brant - University of Illinois

Brant Houston, Knight Foundation Chair in Investigative and Enterprise Reporting, College of Media, University of Illinois

Houston is an award-winning investigative reporter and teaches investigative reporting at the College of Journalism. He served for more than a decade as the executive director of Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), a 3,500-member organization, and as a professor at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Houston worked at daily newspapers for 17 years.

Houston also is the author of three editions of the textbook, Computer-Assisted Reporting: A Practical Guide, and co-author of the fourth edition and fifth edition of The Investigative Reporter's Handbook. 

Currently he is working on projects involving nonprofit journalism, ethnic media newsrooms, and new technologies for news-gathering. 

Houston serves at the Chair of the Steering Committee of the newly-formed Investigative News Network, a coalition of nonprofit journalism centers, and as coordinator for the Global Investigative Journalism Network, which he co-founded in the year 2000. 

(Syllabus Fall 2011 Investigative Reporting)