{"id":19563,"date":"2014-09-23T22:11:51","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T22:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ona14.journalists.org\/speaker\/brant-houston\/"},"modified":"2014-09-23T22:11:51","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T22:11:51","slug":"brant-houston","status":"publish","type":"ona_speaker","link":"https:\/\/ona14.journalists.org\/speaker\/brant-houston\/","title":{"rendered":"Brant Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houston is a Professor and the Knight Chair in Investigative at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign where he also oversees an award-winning online newsroom. Before joining the University, he was executive director of Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) for more than a decade and a part-time professor at the University of Missouri. He was an investigative reporter and a database editor during his 17 years as a journalist at metropolitan newspapers, where he won national and local investigative awards. He is a co-founder and board chair of the Global Investigative Journalism Network and board chair of the Investigative News Network. He was co-author of the fourth and fifth editions of The Investigative Reporters&#39;s Handbook and has just completed the fourth edition of Computer-Assisted Reporting: A Practical Guide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20051,"template":"","meta":{"start_time":0,"end_time":0,"moderators":[],"hashtag":[],"soundcloud":[],"scribble":[],"viafoura":[],"youtube":[],"vimeo":[],"facebook":[],"trint":[],"slideshare":[],"livestream":[],"resources":[],"video_embed":[],"first_name":"","last_name":"","title":"Professor and Knight Chair in Investigative Reporting","organization":"University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign","website":"http:\/\/www.media.illinois.edu\/knight\/","twitter":"branthouston","_sponsor_url":"","_sponsor_tagline":"","_sponsor_level":"","spay_email":""},"event":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona14.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/19563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona14.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona14.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ona_speaker"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ona14.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona14.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ona14.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event?post=19563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}