My “This Year I Learned” Lesson
2014 is the year audio has proven it can go viral The Washington Post’s project called This Year I Learned asks readers […]
Author: Marlena Chertock
Marlena is a digital storyteller and poetry editor at District Lit. Her first poetry book, On that one-way trip to Mars, is available from Bottlecap Press.
How to make good radio
Last night I attended The Kalb Report at the National Press Club. Five NPR reporters and anchors focused on the sound of […]
Gun Wars wins an EPPY
Incredible news to share! The News21 Gun Wars investigation that I worked on for the entire summer in Arizona was awarded an EPPY for […]
Gathering audio from across the ocean blue
For my internship with Marketplace, one of my hats is audio technician/engineer. I’m discovering every day the many ways stations are and […]
Syncing with Marketplace
I just finished my second week in the Marketplace D.C. Bureau, a small and welcoming place. I’m enjoying getting back into radio after […]
For Ferguson
Like a black-caped magician, a man crouches in the street, vanishing among cumulus clouds of lachrymator gas. He’s alone. His eyes drip […]
The Gun Wars report launches
Gun Wars is live at gunwars.news21.com At midnight, the culmination of eight months of work was released into the world as Gun Wars. […]
Going analog after a digital summer
After 10 weeks of staring at computer screens and code for eight to 15 hours a day during my News21 Fellowship, I […]
The last day of News21
Tomorrow is the last day of my Carnegie-Knight News21 fellowship. It’s been a journey—from the five-month seminar to the 10-week summer program. […]
Coding as poetry
Just like poetry, writing code is trial and error. You don’t know where you’ll end up when you first begin. You often […]
News21 Gun Wars blog
Follow the News21 Gun Wars blog for updates on gun rights and regulations in the United States. I am a Fellow reporting […]
My 10-week Phoenix adventure
Tomorrow I will begin working at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University for a 10-week fellowship through the News21 Carnegie-Knight […]
Learning from Education Week Teacher
Last week I wrapped up my five-month stint at Education Week Teacher and reflected on the projects I’ve produced and what I’ve gained from […]
Rereading “Fahrenheit 451”
Yesterday I reread “Fahrenheit 451.” It took me most of the afternoon, through the night. I read in the car, as my […]
An Approach to Teaching Poetry With Afghan Women Writers
On March 29, in a Saturday morning panel at the 2014 Split This Rock poems of provocation and witness poetry festival, the […]
Disrupt Away, Bezos
Written: September 5, 2013 Newspapers need some disruption. The founder of Amazon Jeff Bezos’ buying of The Washington Post is the kind […]
Published in The Little Patuxent Review
The end of 2013 and into 2014 have been great for my poetry! I had two poems published—one in Lines+Stars Journal and […]
Published in Lines+Stars
On November 19 my poem Buffalo 3 was published in the fall 2013 “Circus” issue of Lines+Stars Journal. This is the first […]
Laying brics on Bricolage
Last week I began interning at Education Week Teacher, a national newspaper that covers K-12 education issues, policy and curricular matters. Education […]
Graduating from the University of Maryland
It’s one of those nights. The moon is far and small in a brisk December sky. I’m in bed, not sleeping, but […]