Explore popular quotes and sayings by a journalist Stephen Farrell.
Last updated on November 9, 2024.
Stephen Farrell is a journalist who works for Reuters news agency. He holds both Irish and British citizenship. Farrell worked for The Times from 1995 to 2007, reporting 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, later moving to New York and London. Since January 2018, Farrell has been based in Jerusalem as the bureau chief of Reuters.
I think it would be slightly perverse to continue tempting fate by going back to the same places and doing the same sort of thing.
It wasn't something I started off in my teens or early twenties thinking I want to be a war correspondent. I still don't think of myself as a war correspondent. I'm not. I'm a foreign correspondent.
War is part of what I do, it's not what I do. It's certainly not what I am and who I am.
Conflict is part of being a foreign correspondent; spending long hours talking to politicians in capitals is another part of it.