I am a journalist based in Pakistan covering climate, technology and human rights. My reporting has appeared in Foreign Policy, VICE, Slate, BuzzFeed News, and other publications. Most recently, I was a Labor x Tech fellow at Rest of World. My work covered how technology impacts work and the way we work in South Asia. Read my portfolio of labor reporting here.

My work has been supported by fellowships from the South Asian Journalism Association, One World Media and the EU Journalism Fund. I was a 2020 journalism fellow with FASPE, Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics. And in 2023, I was a finalist for the Thomson Foundation’s Young Journalist Award.

I have received trainings from the International Center for Journalists, the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, and the Center for Excellence in Journalism. I am also a member of the Oxford Climate Journalism Network‘s third cohort. The Network is a program of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford and is designed to help journalists develop their reporting on the climate crisis.

I was adjunct faculty at Habib University from January 2021 till May 2023, where I taught journalism and media studies courses to undergraduate students. I also hold a Master’s degree in Near Eastern Studies & Journalism from NYU, where I was a Falak Sufi Scholar.

Reach out to me on zsiddiqui [at] protonmail [dot] com