I am a data journalist with a focus on visualization. In 2018, I joined the faculty at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism, where I am the director of the data and graphics bureau of Capital News Service and teach data journalism and visual design courses. I previously worked as the senior editor of data and graphics at The Baltimore Sun.
My work on police accountability has twice been named as a Pulitzer Prize finalist. In 2024 Lethal Restraint, an investigation into fatal police encounters done in cooperation with The Howard Center for Investigative Journalism and The Associated Press, was named finalist for the Pulitzer in Investigative Journalism. In 2015 I was part of a team nominated as Pulitzer finalists for our work on The 45 Minute Mystery of Freddie Gray’s Death about the death of Freddie Gray at the hands of Baltimore police.
I proudly live in Baltimore, “The City That Reads.”
Contact me at adamATadammarton.com.
Press
Best of Baltimore
Baltimore Magazine included me in their Best of Baltimore list for 2016 for a Facebook essay and accompanying OpEd I wrote about a 28-year-old homicide victim whom I had encountered in an odd circumstance 12 years earlier.
Editor and Publisher feature
The 45 Minute Mystery of Freddie Grey interactive earned us a spot in Editor and Publisher’s “10 Newspapers That Do It Right 2016: Finding Success with Audience, Digital and New Revenue Ideas”