2023 Multimedia Story of the Year (ACP)
By the Numbers: Exploring Campaign Finance in the 2022 US Midterms
March 2023 | The Reed College Quest
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> Declan Bradley is a reporting intern for The Chronicle of Higher Education and transfer student at Oberlin College. He is a graduate of the Lede Program for Data Journalism at Columbia University, and lives in Washington, D.C. 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.
> His passion for data reporting has led him to volunteer as an analyst and scraper for both the Data Liberation Project and Open Elections, and he currently serves as a web developer for the Behind the Badge Project at MuckRock.
> Find him on LinkedIn and GitHub .
Reporter of the Year Portfolio
2nd News Writing (ACP)
Flaw in Campus Directory Exposes ID Numbers of Students, Staff, Faculty, Alumni
September 2023 | The Reed College Quest
Reporter of the Year Honoree
Electoral Counting Method Disenfranchises Reed Voters
March 2023 | The Reed Inquirer
Reporter of the Year Honoree
Non-Credible Bomb Threat Targeted Reed, 200+ Other Colleges, Data Shows
March 2024 | The Reed Inquirer
Latest Work
Federal Inmates Have Filed Millions of Complaints Against Their Jailers. Most Go Unheard.
July 2024 | Lede Program for Data Journalism @ Columbia University
Why Political Text Blasts Targeting College Students Are Drawing Outrage
October 2024 | The Chronicle of Higher Education
At U. of Wisconsin, Underrepresented Students of Color Were Half as Likely to Be Accepted This Year
September 2024 | The Chronicle of Higher Education
2nd News Writing (ACP)
Flaw in Campus Directory Exposes ID Numbers of Students, Staff, Faculty, Alumni
September 2023 | The Reed College Quest
The Silver Ceiling
June 2024 | Lede Program for Data Journalism @ Columbia University
2023 Multimedia Story of the Year (ACP)
By the Numbers: Exploring Campaign Finance in the 2022 US Midterms
March 2023 | The Reed College Quest
Federal Inmates Have Filed Millions of Complaints Against Their Jailers. Most Go Unheard.
July 2024 | Lede Program for Data Journalism @ Columbia University
Why Political Text Blasts Targeting College Students Are Drawing Outrage
October 2024 | The Chronicle of Higher Education
At U. of Wisconsin, Underrepresented Students of Color Were Half as Likely to Be Accepted This Year
September 2024 | The Chronicle of Higher Education
2nd News Writing (ACP)
Flaw in Campus Directory Exposes ID Numbers of Students, Staff, Faculty, Alumni
September 2023 | The Reed College Quest
The Silver Ceiling
June 2024 | Lede Program for Data Journalism @ Columbia University
Reporter of the Year Honoree
Electoral Counting Method Disenfranchises Reed Voters
March 2023 | The Reed Inquirer
Getting to the Heart of Data at Reed
March 2024 | Reed Magazine
Reporter of the Year Honoree
Non-Credible Bomb Threat Targeted Reed, 200+ Other Colleges, Data Shows
March 2024 | The Reed Inquirer
Federal Inmate Complaints Data Cleaning & Scraping
July 2024 | The Data Liberation Project
How a DVS Mentorship Changed My Approach to Data Journalism
November 2023 | Nightingale Magazine
Staff Pay Explained: What Would Have Changed, and why Staff and Faculty Objected
March 2023 | The Reed College Quest
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Dev Projects
congress-finance
An interactive chart of campaign donations to candidates for congressional office in the 2022 US midterms, using source data crawled from opensecrets.org.
openelections-data-pa
Volunteer work parsing election results released by county offices using pdfplumber. Focused on Pennsylvania, my home state.
inmate-complaints-api
Exploratory interface for 1.78 million complaint/appeal submissions filed by federal prison inmates over 24 years, published by the Data Liberation Project.
doe-investigations-crawler
Send an email summary whenever the department of ed opens a new investigation into a U.S. college.
kamala-trump-timing
Interactive visualization of Trump's Truth Social posts during Harris's acceptance speech at the DNC.
bop-inmate-complaint-data-processing
Worked with Jeremy Singer-Vine to process BOP data received via FOIA.