Using parallax to discuss college athletic spending
Athletic Spending in ACC and Big Ten For my final CNS project, I wanted to learn parallax. Parallax is the difference between […]
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.
Flowing to better designs
To help people decide which name to vote on for the Smithsonian National Zoological Park’s Giant Panda cub, I created a flowchart. The […]
Designing a wine tasting chart
For the past two weeks, I have been designing a wine tasting chart to go along with an article about the growing […]
Learning to build
Last week in Capital News Service I learned tabletop js and became “mustache champ,” which stands for my initials and the Mustache language. […]
Becoming a cartographer
I created this interactive map using TileMill to show locations of bird-friendly coffee farms. TileMill is an application you download to your […]
Charting Maryland casino revenue
I created two charts that track Maryland casino revenue, using Highcharts. The website offers demos that make it easy to learn and […]
The best feedback an intern could receive
Are you on the Takoma Park beat? Will you be writing all these stories?” I had no idea I was speaking to […]
OPINION: An intern’s response to the selling of The Washington Post
As an intern, I get to experience office life and newsrooms. I am in the thick of it — reporting on deadline, […]
Reporters and gifts
This past week at The Gazette I experienced a case of real-world journalism ethics in my reporting. This week I had a […]
Fourth week at USA TODAY
Last week was my last one at USA TODAY. Here’s a recap: Monday I wrote a tip list for the USA TODAY […]
Reporting reactions of DOMA and Proposition 8 at the Supreme Court
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Third week at USA TODAY
Monday I met with the science writer, Dan Vergano, and we discussed his upcoming article about summer stargazing for USA TODAY Weekend. […]
Second week at USA TODAY
Has it been the second week at USA TODAY already? Monday Monday my editor went over my story ideas and helped me […]
First week at USA TODAY
I just wrapped up my first week at USA TODAY and it has been amazing. Here’s how my week went.
16 and license-less
In the U.S. the age of first-time drivers license receivers has risen from 16 to 19 By Marlena Chertock He’s a junior […]
My poems are published!
I’m now a published poet! Two of my poems were published in this year’s issue of Stylus and one won First Place in […]
Designing “a decade of scribblers”
This year I was hard at work as the Social Media Manager for the Writers’ House. One of my projects this semester […]
Wearing words for a week
A literary journal’s method of spreading stories, poems Marlena Chertock, Editor-in-Chief of The Writers’ Bloc Dylan Bargteil, a Writers’ House alumnus and now […]
Striving for recognition, asking not to be invisible
The story of an undocumented citizen By Marlena Chertock First published in The Writers’ Bloc. Jose Antonio Vargas, a journalist, came out […]
The importance of place
Chimamanda Adichie tells true, personal stories By Marlena Chertock She tries to tell the Nigerian story, her Nigerian story, through fearless honesty. […]