Alumni
The journalism program blends multimedia storytelling fundamentals with data reporting techniques.
Dozens of alumni have launched into newsrooms worldwide
Alums are providing essential coverage from Washington D.C.
Stanford’s specialized focus on data journalism provides students a competitive advantage
Stanford Journalism alumni are telling stories at newsrooms across the world, from The New York Times to The Washington Post to The Verge.
Investigating Medicaid fraud through public records
Phoebe Quinton, 2023, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“In the data journalism classes, [faculty] went through how to clean data ... because sometimes a small mistake can just really grow,”
Elena Shao, 2022, The New York Times
“I started to understand that the problems that I was trying to solve in journalism were not deeply complex logical problems, but were more creative problems.”
Danielle Echeverria, 2021, SF Chronicle
“It’s where I learned how to be a journalist … really understanding how to report and how to do it with a lot of thoughtfulness and empathy.”
McArdle Hankin, 2020, Local Live
“It really made the barrier to entry for me into the journalism world a lot lower, and it helped me accelerate the growth of our company.”
Gillian Brassil, 2019, Bloomberg Law
“They really made me a well-rounded journalist. Professors are a call away if we need anything. Their insight is always tremendous, and I still rely on their expertise.”
Katlyn Alo, 2018, SF Chronicle
“You’re working with professors who have invested in this idea that innovation needs to happen in the industry.”
Jackie Botts, 2018, Reuters
“I feel like the program opened my eyes to what’s possible. It gave me this larger curiosity that you could do a lot more if you have the data for a story.”
Carolina Wilson, 2015, Bloomberg
“I think as long as I’m telling a story, that’s where I want my career to be. I think there are so many different outlets for that now and Stanford has given me so many tools to pursue those outlets.”
Farida Jhabvala Romero, 2015, KQED
“I got to go a lot deeper with the stories I did here because I was able to use multimedia and data, in addition to the skills I had before. Those additional tools help you become a better storyteller.”
Allison McCartney, 2015, The New York Times
“What I really learned about storytelling here is how to construct a narrative reported over a length of time, which is something I had never done before.”
