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The Hearst Fellowship, Data Visualization Track is a one-year program focusing on journalism in a changing digital world. The successful candidate will embed on the DevHub, our San Francisco-based central editorial engineering and visual storytelling team, and will work on projects, tools, stories and news products for our top metro papers: San Francisco Chronicle, Houston Chronicle, San Antonio Express-News, Albany Times Union and our Hearst Connecticut newsrooms. Fellows will receive training, mentoring and real-world experience alongside top journalist-programmers who use cutting-edge tools and strategies to tell stories.

Hearst Fellows are full-time employees with competitive salary and benefits, including health insurance, relocation allowance and a housing stipend.

What The Successful Candidate Will Do On The DevHub

• Produce journalism that's centered on data, visuals and interactivity, in collaboration with local data and graphics teams.
• Work with newsrooms on best practices for data analysis and visualization and help them find stories and produce ambitious interactive experiences.
• Enrich existing tools and trackers with fresh approaches to data analysis and visualization.
• Improve and maintain a suite of tools and templates that newsrooms use to tell visual stories and produce interactive projects.

Candidate Expectations

The experience you gain as a Hearst Fellow is the start of a strong foundation for your journalism career. Our objective is to recruit, train and retain journalists who have experience with data, graphics, front-end digital design or back-end development. Candidates should be college graduates with interest, experience or background in journalism and data visualization.

In addition, candidates must be willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area.

How Fellows Are Selected

The leaders of the HNP DevHub will conduct multiple interviews and tests the top candidates.

Application Requirements

• One-page resume that includes academic major and minor, date or expected date of graduation, permanent and current addresses, email, website, and social media addresses (if applicable).
• One additional page that includes: three work/character references including titles, email addresses and phone numbers, and links to digital work samples.

Additional information and the Fellows website can be found at

Deadline to apply for the Fellowship program is Jan. 5, 2026.