Adam Marton

Adam Marton is an award-winning data journalist specializing in visual storytelling, code and design.

In 2018, Marton joined the faculty at the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism, where he directs the data and graphics bureau of Capital News Service and teaches data journalism and visual design courses. He was promoted to the rank of senior lecturer in 2024.

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.

Marton is a graduate of Towson University and the University of Baltimore’s publication design graduate program. He is a native Marylander and lives in Baltimore City.

Degrees
B.A., Towson University
M.A., University of Baltimore