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\nI am a data journalist with a focus on visualization. In 2018, I joined the faculty at the University of Maryland\u2019s 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. <\/span>
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\nMy work on police accountability has twice been named as a Pulitzer Prize finalist. In 2024 Lethal Restraint<\/em>, 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\u2019s Death<\/em> about the death of Freddie Gray at the hands of Baltimore police.<\/span><\/p>\n

I proudly live in Baltimore, “The City That Reads.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Contact me at adamATadammarton.com.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Press<\/h4>\n

Best of Baltimore<\/strong><\/a>
\nBaltimore 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.<\/p>\n

Editor and Publisher feature<\/strong><\/a>
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