 In July 2007, Farrell joined "The New York Times", initially as a correspondent in Baghdad, and later as a foreign correspondent reporting in print and video across the Middle East, including Libya, the Tahrir Square protests in Cairo and Jordan.In 2007 he was part of the NYT's Baghdad bureau, which won the Overseas Press Club of America award for best web coverage of international affairs, for the multimedia feature "Assessing the Surge