2026 Hearst Developer Fellowship Program

Ready to join our team of world-class journalists

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 DevHub does

The HNP DevHub is a team of engineers developers designers project managers and content strategists who collaborate with local newsrooms to create best-in-class digital experiences. We make things like election results pages searchable databases severe weather trackers elegantly designed alternative story forms and whatever else you can dream up. You canlearn more about the DevHub here.

What it could mean for your future
The goal of the program if successfully completed by the Fellow is to be offered a job at the end of the one-year tenure.

While participation in the program is not a guarantee of future employment our goal is to recruit candidates who eventually will join our full-time professional staff. All of us at Hearst Fellowships have an investment in your future and in the future of Hearst Newspapers.

What the successful candidate will do on the DevHub

• Produce journalism thats 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.

Hearst Fellowships jump-start great journalism careers

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.

How Fellows are selected

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

Professional assistance to ensure your best chance of success

If you are offered and accept a position you will be assigned an adviser and can develop mentoring relationships with seasoned professionals throughout Hearst Newspapers.

Additional Requirements & Information

Please see our Fellows website at. In addition candidates must be willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area.

To be considered you must submit in all required documents in PDF format:

• 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.

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