Declan Bradley is a senior at Oberlin College and a reporter for The Oberlin Review. As a 2025 Dow Jones News Fund intern in data reporting, he conducted data analysis for stories published by the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the University of Maryland.
He is a graduate of the Lede Program for Data Journalism at Columbia University and former intern for The Chronicle of Higher Education. 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 contracts as an elections webscraper for the Associated Press. In 2026, he delivered a talk on covering higher education with data at IRE’s NICAR conference for computational journalism. His recent work includes: