Declan Bradley is a 2025 Dow Jones News Fund data reporting intern at the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism. He is a student at Oberlin College and graduate of the Lede Program for Data Journalism at Columbia University. As a reporting intern for The Chronicle of Higher Education, he used data and investigative techniques to cover emerging stories on campuses across the nation. In 2024, he was named Reporter of the Year by the Associated Collegiate Press. See his resume.
His work, including visualizations of national campaign finance data and an investigation into the improper storage of student data at Reed College, has won top awards from the ACP in news writing, opinion, and multimedia journalism. He is the recipient of the 2023 Multimedia Story of the Year award for interactive graphics.
He volunteers as an analyst and scraper for the Data Liberation Project. In 2024, he developed a website for Behind the Badge - an investigative reporting project that seeks to provide the internal disciplinary files of the New York State police to the public.