Hi, I'm Mariel. I'm a general assignment reporter at The 19th News.

 

Previously, I was a breaking news reporter at The New York Times. I wrote about all kinds of things: tragic deaths, outrageous arrests, natural disasters, mass shootings and now a pandemic.

 

But it wasn't always doom and gloom.

 

I have also written about viral challenges, a kindergartner's adoption and the occasional runaway emu. Once, Mark Hamill told me about the tears that rolled down his face the first time he heard the Star Wars soundtrack.

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During my first real journalism job, I contributed to the Pulitzer Prize-winning project: "Seven Days of Heroin." I was a breaking news intern at The Cincinnati Enquirer. Months later, I was sitting in class at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism when the prizes were announced (a moment that was later featured as a Jeopardy question). 

 

Later, as a data fellow at the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, I created a database of the Philippine drug war victims by compiling and encoding tens of thousands of documents. The year-long investigation was published in The Atlantic. 

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I've also presented at conferences, done (some podcast) interviews, won a TOFA award and dabbled in data. 

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