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 […]
Read moreAuthor: 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.
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. […]
Read moreGoing 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 […]
Read moreThe 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. […]
Read moreCoding 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 […]
Read moreNews21 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 […]
Read moreMy 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 […]
Read moreLearning 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 […]
Read moreRereading “Fahrenheit 451”
Yesterday I reread “Fahrenheit 451.” It took me most of the afternoon, through the night. I read in the car, as my […]
Read moreAn 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 […]
Read moreDisrupt Away, Bezos
Written: September 5, 2013 Newspapers need some disruption. The founder of Amazon Jeff Bezos’ buying of The Washington Post is the kind […]
Read morePublished 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 […]
Read morePublished 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 […]
Read moreLaying 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 […]
Read moreGraduating 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 […]
Read moreUsing 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 […]
Read moreFlowing 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 […]
Read moreDesigning 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 […]
Read moreLearning 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. […]
Read moreBecoming 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 […]
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