COLLEGE PARK — Timothy Jacobsen and Adam Marton, faculty members at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism, have been promoted to the rank of Senior Lecturer, Dean Rafael Lorente announced.
Jacobsen is the lead instructor for photojournalism and advanced photojournalism classes at Merrill College. Marton is the director of Merrill College’s Capital News Service data and graphics bureau, and teaches data journalism and visual design courses. Capital News Service is the college’s student-powered news organization with bureaus and news teams in Annapolis, Baltimore, College Park and Washington, D.C.
Jacobsen started his professional photography career as a photojournalist with the Yuma (Arizona) Daily News in 1988 after graduating from Winona State University with a B.A. in Mass Communications.
He joined the staff of The Frederick News-Post in 1989 and spent 12 years as a photojournalist on the newspaper’s award-winning photo staff. In 2001, he embarked on a freelance photography career, booking work with The Associated Press, The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, and other regional and national news/media outlets.
In 2005, he created a photojournalism class at Hood College and soon after joined the faculty at Merrill College as an adjunct professor. In 2019, he was named coordinator for the newly formed Hood College broadcasting studios where he oversees their studios, multimedia visual production classes and radio station.
“Tim is a terrific photojournalist and a natural teacher,” Lorente said. “We are lucky to have him upping our visuals games in skills classes and capstone projects.”
Marton is an award-winning data journalist specializing in visual storytelling, code and design.
Marton has been a top editor on many impactful journalism projects at Merrill. That includes "Printing Hate," winner of the News Leaders Association's 2022 Punch Sulzberger Innovator of the Year Award, which explored the racist past of white-owned newspapers; and "Code Red: Baltimore's Climate Divide," winner of the National Press Foundation’s 2019 Innovative Storytelling Award, which examined the relationship between climate change and poverty.
Marton worked at The Baltimore Sun for 13 years, where he led the data and graphics desk in the newsroom. He designed and built many projects for The Sun, including “The 45 Minute Mystery of Freddie Gray’s Death,” which was a 2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist.
“Adam’s expertise and thoughtful work with students and other faculty have helped Merrill become a nationwide leader in innovative project design and investigative journalism,” Lorente said. “Thanks to work from Adam and others, we will continue to lead.”
For more information, contact:
Josh Land
joshland@umd.edu
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