Darya Marchenkova is the associate and digital producer at Fault Lines, a documentary current affairs program on Al Jazeera English. She fact-checks and conducts research for the show, including tracking down primary documents to verify information and filing public records requests. She also edits the show’s trailers and manages its online presence.
Prior to joining Fault Lines, Darya interned at Type Investigations, where she assisted reporters with original research and fact-checked longform investigations. She previously interned as a daily reporter for the Montreal Gazette.
She has contributed to investigations of sexual assault in the United States military, cancer clusters that occur near toxic waste sites, sex abuse in an insular religious community, and rights abuses in pretrial detention.
Darya received a B.A. in liberal arts from The New School, an M.A. in political science from Central European University, and a graduate diploma in visual journalism from Concordia University in Montreal. She produced a short documentary film that explored the experience of losing a native language, which screened at film festivals in Slovenia, Baltimore, and Ohio.
Before becoming a journalist, Darya was a community organizer, developed curriculum for popular education projects, and carried out communications for nonprofits.
