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Stephen Farrell was born on 1962 in London, is an Irish and British journalist. Discover Stephen Farrell's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 62 years old?

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Stephen Farrell is a journalist who works for Reuters news agency.

He holds both Irish and British citizenship.

1995

Farrell worked for The Times from 1995 to 2007, reporting from Kosovo, India, Afghanistan and the Middle East, including Iraq.

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.

2000

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.

2001

From 2001 to 2007 he was Middle East correspondent, covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the 2003 invasion of Iraq and its aftermath.

2004

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.

2007

In 2007, he joined The New York Times, and reported from the Middle East, Afghanistan and Libya, later moving to New York and London.

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".

2008

The bureau's staff were finalists in the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.

From 2008, Farrell wrote the Baghdad Bureau blog which was renamed as "At War" in 2009 and expanded, becoming "a reported blog from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and other conflicts in the post-9/11 era".

2009

Farrell ran the at War blog from the field from 2009 until early 2012, when he handed over to editors based in New York.

On 5 September 2009, while Farrell and his interpreter Sultan Munadi were in a village south of Kunduz, Afghanistan, investigating reports of civilian casualties in a NATO strike on two fuel tankers that had been hijacked by the Taliban they were kidnapped.

On 9 September, four days after the kidnap, a British Army raid rescued Farrell.

Corporal John Harrison, a British soldier from the 1st Battalion, The Parachute Regiment, Special Forces Support Group and Farrell's interpreter, Sultan Munadi were killed.

During his captivity, media organizations imposed a news blackout on his kidnapping, similar to that which had taken place during the kidnapping of fellow New York Times journalist David Rohde a few months earlier, for fear that media attention would increase the risk to the captives.

Prior to his kidnap Farrell had ignored repeated warnings that it was too dangerous to travel to the site and was later criticized for his actions which cost the life of one of the soldiers involved in his rescue.

After the rescue The New York Times's public editor, Clark Hoyt, questioned Farrell and Times editors about the incident for a column headlined 'Calculations of War: Which Risk Is Reasonable?' Hoyt quoted Bill Keller, the then executive editor, saying "I have seen no evidence that his reporting mission was reckless or irresponsible".

Hoyt said Farrell denied assertions that he ignored repeated warnings, writing: "Farrell told me the only warning he got came from a policeman who said it would not be safe to go to the scene of the airstrike because darkness was approaching" and that he did not go there until the next morning.

Hoyt concluded, "I cannot make the judgment – as so many do without all the facts – that Farrell acted recklessly."

He added: "independent reporting is often the only way to uncover truths that governments and militaries do not want the public to know, like the carnage from airstrikes."

2010

In March 2010 Farrell co-authored a history of Hamas, titled Hamas: The Islamic Resistance Movement, with a British academic, Beverley Milton-Edwards.

2011

Farrell was detained again in Libya in March 2011.

The New York Times reported on 18 March 2011 that Libya had agreed to free him and three colleagues: Anthony Shadid, Lynsey Addario and Tyler Hicks.

Farrell was released on 21 March 2011, along with all of his colleagues.

Farrell was part of the NYT reporting and graphics team which won Society for News Design and Malofiej awards for 18 Days at the Center of Egypt's Revolution, a graphic map of the February 2011 Egyptian protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square.

The map was updated throughout the demonstrations, which led to the fall of President Hosni Mubarak.

2012

Farrell joined the NYT in New York in October 2012.

2013

He was a member of the NYT video journalism unit which won an online 2013 National Edward R. Murrow Award for its breaking news coverage of the impact of Hurricane Sandy on New York.

2016

In 2016 he moved to the NYT's London bureau to work on the digital news desk, on the team developing a new design for the Times's website and mobile phone app.

2017

In 2017 he joined Reuters, working as bureau chief in Jerusalem until Jan. 2022.

He then worked in Ukraine and is now based in London.

Farrell studied English Language and Literature at Edinburgh University 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.

In December 2017 Farrell joined Reuters news agency as a writer and video journalist and moved to Jerusalem as Bureau Chief for Israel and the Palestinian Territories, overseeing text, pictures and television.

In early 2022 he moved to London.