Stephen Farrell (journalist)
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| Born | 1962 London |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Notable credit(s) | The Times; The New York Times |
| Title | Senior Staff Editor, The New York Times |
Stephen Farrell is a journalist who holds both Irish and British citizenship. Farrell began his career in the United Kingdom and worked for the The Times from 1995 to 2007 for whom he reported from Kosovo, India, Afghanistan and the Middle East, including Iraq. In 2007, he joined The New York Times, and reported from the Middle East, Afghanistan and Libya. Since 2012, Farrell has been based in New York and has reported on domestic US news stories such as Hurricane Sandy.
Farrell studied English Language and Literature at Edinburgh University in Scotland before becoming a journalist on a London local newspaper, a news agency and then the now-defunct Today newspaper, for which he reported from Britain, Northern Ireland and the Balkans.
After Today ceased publication in 1995 he joined The Times, working as a news reporter on stories such as the Dunblane school massacre in Scotland, the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in Paris and the conflict in Kosovo. He became The Times’s South Asia correspondent in 2000, based in New Delhi and reporting from Afghanistan under Taliban rule, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka and Myanmar. From 2001 to 2007 he was Middle East correspondent, covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the 2003 invasion of Iraq and its aftermath.
In April 2004, while on assignment for The Times, he was kidnapped by Sunni insurgents during the First Battle of Fallujah. He was freed unharmed after eight hours of captivity.
In July 2007, Farrell joined The New York Times, initially as a correspondent in Baghdad, and later as a foreign correspondent reporting in print and video across the Middle East, including Libya, the Tahrir Square protests in Cairo and Jordan.
In 2007 he was part of the NYT's Baghdad bureau, which won the Overseas Press Club of America award for best web coverage of international affairs, for the multimedia feature "Assessing the Surge: A Survey of Baghdad Neighborhoods". The bureau's staff were finalists in the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.
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