Farah Farouque

Farah Farouque began the year in Sri Lanka with a 12-hour road trip in a taxi to reach a tsunami-ravaged coastal village. The week leading to the new year had been the most gruelling she’d experienced as a journalist, moving from camp to camp to collect the stories of survivors. “The Boxing Day tsunami was, above all, a human tragedy but it was also an extraordinary news story,” Farouque says.

“That is what reporting news comes down to in the end. One day you are at your desk wrangling on the phone with a press secretary or finetuning a feature. The next day you get a late-night summons to pack your bags to report on a story of that scale.”

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