WHO IS DAN BAUMAN?
Dan Bauman wrangles documents, datasets, and developed sources to furnish original, actionable intelligence and accountability journalism with impact. You can reach him at danbauman77@gmail.com.
After more than a decade on the beat, he's earned bylines and credits in some of America's most-esteemed news publications.
RÉSUMÉ
Freelance Reporter, Paid Speaker, and Industry Analyst, (11/2025 - present)
• Undertake and complete investigative projects and other enterprise journalism for regional and national news organizations
• As an expert panelist, present on the demographic, societal, and technological challenges ahead for public research universities across the next 25 years
• Draft white paper entitled "Generational Change: Public Research Universities and the Next Quarter-Century (2026-2050)"
Senior Reporter – The Chronicle of Higher Education, (11/2021 - 10/2025)
Staff Reporter – (01/2018 - 10/2021)
• Pitch and produce original breaking-news content, medium-term enterprise analyses, and long-term investigative projects
• Spearhead and collaborate on FOIA and open-records requests, as well as on data-driven and agenda-setting projects
• Code and deploy a suite of free or low-cost reporting and data-collection assets
Data Reporter – The Chronicle of Higher Education, (04/2016 – 12/2017)
• Collect, clean, analyze, and lead the publication of The Chronicle’s semiannual chief executive compensation projects
• Pitch and produce data-driven articles, and collaborate with reporters
Data Reporter – Saint Paul Pioneer Press, (02/2015 – 04/2016)
• Produce data-driven stories and online interactive features
• Assist reporters in learning data skills or applying them to their beats
• Maintain and build in-house databases for reporters and editors, plus an online data repository for the public
DAT204x: Introduction to R for Data Science
Issued March 2017
edX, Datacamp, and Microsoft
Computer-Assisted Reporting (CAR) Boot Camp - Columbia, Missouri
Attended January 12-16, 2015
Doing Journalism With Data: First Steps, Skills and Tools
Issued Summer 2014
Data Driven Journalism MOOC