Brant Houston is a Professor and the Knight Chair in Investigative Reporting at the University of Illinois, where he teaches investigative and data journalism. An award-winning journalist for over 40 years, he was a reporter at U.S. newspapers for 17 years and has been an editor of investigative stories for digital newsrooms since. Houston has conducted more than 400 seminars for professional journalists and students in 30 countries, and he is a co-founder of networks of nonprofit newsrooms and educators throughout the world.