Ruth Sherlock

Ruth Sherlock (born 28 April 1987) is an English journalist. She is currently an international correspondent for NPR.

Early life and education Sherlock is from Hereford and grew up in King's Thorn. She is of partial Italian descent. After taking a gap year, she went on to study at Durham University. During her undergraduate studies she received a travel award from Hatfield College that allowed her to visit the Middle East for work experience and complete a course in Arabic.

Career Sherlock began her journalistic career as a freelancer, and has spoken on the importance of building community with locals when working as an on the ground freelancer. She was working in the West Bank and Israel when she received word of unrest in Egypt. She traveled to Cairo, and reported from there on the 2011 Egyptian revolution before moving on to cover Libya's civil war. She also collaborated with Zoe Lafferty and Paul Wood on the 2012 play The Fear of Breathing: Stories from the Syrian Revolution. The trio clandestinely traveled to Syria to conduct interviews and collect research.

In 2012, she won The Press Awards' Young Journalist of the Year award While working for The Daily Telegraph, Sherlock covered the Syrian civil war. She reported on the Queiq River Massacre in January 2013. She met American aid worker Kayla Mueller in 2013, and followed her work up until Mueller was kidnapped by the Islamic State in August 2013. In 2014, Sherlock survived an attempted kidnapping herself while working in Yabrud.

In early 2015, Sherlock was made a U.S. editor for The Daily Telegraph. During her time that position, she covered the 2016 presidential election. 2014 British Journalism Awards (shortlisted), for coverage of chemical weapons use by the Syrian regime