Tyler Dukes
Knight Chair, Journalism & Technology at University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolTyler Dukes is a journalism leader with 12 years of experience blending investigative reporting, public records expertise, and data-driven storytelling to strengthen local news. As McClatchy’s lead editor for AI innovation in journalism, he runs a team that helps 30+ newsrooms responsibly apply data, automation and AI to improve reporting. He has taught data journalism and press-focused courses at Duke and UNC, held a Nieman fellowship researching democratized data-driven reporting, and spent years producing long-form watchdog work at The News & Observer and WRAL. Comfortable at the intersection of newsroom craft and tech, he has a track record of lowering barriers to computer-aided investigative journalism through open-source-minded projects. Based in Raleigh, he’s equally at home translating dense datasets for the public as he is mentoring the next generation of reporters.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Science, Technology and Society, B.S. Science, Technology and Society at North Carolina State University
Github Skills (49)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
wraldata/wraldata.github.io
Feb 2015 - Mar 2019
Contributions:143 commits, 142 pushes in 4 years 1 month
mtdukes/coding-with-bots
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:27 commits, 25 pushes, 4 branches in 9 days
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