Tyler Dukes is the lead editor for AI innovation in journalism at McClatchy Media, where he leads a small team of journalists that helps the company’s 30+ local newsrooms responsibly harness data, automation and artificial intelligence to elevate and strengthen their reporting. He teaches data journalism at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy and was previously an investigative reporter at The News and Observer, where he specialized in data and computational journalism. In 2017, he completed a fellowship at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. Prior to joining the N&O, he worked as an investigative reporter on the state politics team at WRAL News, a locally owned television station. He is also the former managing editor of the Duke University Reporters’ Lab, where he researched tools and techniques for reducing the costs of investigative journalism.

Courses

• PJMS 375-01 PUBPOL 343 Journalism in the Age of Data (Fall 2024)