Mike Reilley

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Location Chicago, IL
Introduction Mike founded the Toolbox in 1998 as a page on one of his online course syllabi at Northwestern University. Mike is a former newspaper reporter, having served for more than 10 years on the staffs of the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune, where he covered sports, business and news. He also was one of the founding editors of ChicagoTribune.com, overseeing online sports coverage and coordinating with the print staff. He taught reporting, editing, Web design and public relations classes full-time for more than three years at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in Chicago. He has an undergraduate degree in news-editorial journalism from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a master's degree in media management from Northwestern. More on LinkedIn.com.