Mike Howie

The News-Gazette

15 Main St., Champaign IL 61820
(217) 351-5211
mhowie@illinois.edu

Education

B.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(Teaching of English, minor in French)

Affiliations

City editor, The News-Gazette
Lecturer in Journalism

Course Specialties

Reporting 1
Reporting 2
Advanced Reporting Topics (News-Gazette partnership course)

Background

Howie has been at The News-Gazette since 1978. He has been a copy editor; beat reporter covering general assignment, education and municipal government; investigative reporter; and an editor in a variety of capacities. He has been city editor since 1999. He was a co-teacher of office computer applications at University Laboratory High School in Urbana from 1997 to 1999. His reporting has won a number of state and regional awards, and he has won the Associated Press Managing Editors national award for public service.