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, the International Center for Journalists, and the EU Journalism Fund. I was a 2020 journalism fellow with FASPE, Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics. In 2023, I was a finalist for the Thomson Foundation’s Young Journalist Award. And in 2025, a project I worked on for Rest of World — tracing the impact of air pollution on gig workers in Lahore, New Delhi and Dhaka — won The Society of Publishers in Asia Award for Excellence in Reporting on the Environment.

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 am an Assistant Professor of Practice at Habib University, where I teach journalism and creative nonfiction 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