Ruth Sherlock

About

Award winning foreign correspondent with over 15 years experience reporting on conflict and climate. I’ve covered almost the entire civil war in Syria. I lived in Libya for the duration of the war in 2011. I covered the fall of dictator Hosni Mubarak in Egypt. I have lived in Lebanon and reported from Yemen, Turkey, Oman and many other countries in the Middle East. I’m now based in Rome for NPR. I still report from Syria and Israel and the Palestinian Territories at times. I was recently part of a team that won the DuPont Award for our reporting on the conflict. I also cover the Vatican and southern Europe, where I focus on climate change and biodiversity loss and migration. I was previously the U.S Editor for The Telegraph - the youngest and first female US Editor for the newspaper - covering the US 2016 presidential election race.This year, as well as the DuPont team award, I was awarded the Edward R Murrow Award for reporting from Iraq. In 2024 I won three National Headliner awards for reporting from Turkey, Iraq and the war in Gaza. I’ve also been awarded the Young Journalist of the Year prize the British Press Awards and twice been a finalist Amnesty International’s Gaby Rado Award for human rights reporting. An investigation Syrian government chemical weapons was shortlisted at the British Journalism Awards.One of my pieces for the BBC’s From Our Own Correspondent, also from Syria, has been included in a book of the programme’s best stories. With NPR, a podcast episode I reported and helped to write and produce for the show Embedded — telling the stories of European and American parents trying to get back their children who went to Syria to join ISIS - was shortlisted for the prestigious Livingstone award.