Declan Bradley is a computational journalist and elections engineer for The Associated Press. He is a graduate of the Lede Program for Data Journalism at Columbia University. His work has appeared in The Oberlin Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and POLITICO. 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 identifying more than $52 million of Oberlin College’s foreign investments, 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.
As a Dow Jones News Fund data reporting intern for the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the University of Maryland, he conducted data analysis for the center's Off the Rails series on the dangers posed by long distance rail transport of hazardous materials. The series received on Edward R. Murrow award for investigative journalism.
In 2026, he delivered a talk on covering higher education with data at IRE’s NICAR conference for data journalism.