Marley Markham

Storytelling from

and for our world

Feature Writing

Whether it be a story about organ trafficking in Latin America or a football subculture in Cambodia, I see writing as advocacy. For that reason, I hold the voices of those involved at the heart of every story I tell.

Rather than dealing in convenient soundbites or data for news packages, my currency is human experience.

Featured Story

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Meet the Stone Island-Wearing Cambodian Football Ultras - MUNDIAL

I am handed a warm cup of Angkor beer that is about 50% head. The sweet pungencies of Phnom Penh’s evening perfume lurk in my nostrils—or maybe they are just hooked in my brain. I duck to avoid a sweeping flag displaying a logo of a skull in a soldier’s helmet. Someone taps me on the shoulder, offering out some stickers: ‘Ultras Army,’ ‘Green Brigade,’ ‘We Support Till We Die.’ Then it all got a bit mad.

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Organised Crime Reporting

Analyses of organised criminal updates informed by interviews with experts, published in English and Spanish for Latin America’s leading organised crime journalism platform, InSight Crime.

Travelogues

They don’t tell you this in travel books or on the fevered screens of social media, but every place has a distinct feel. You know what I mean.

In this unique series of travelogues published exclusively here, I bring you a bit closer to the feel of some of the places that I have been to, near and far.

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Visual Storytelling