Guardian freelance, award-winning journalist, commissioning editor, blogger

Saba specliases in social affairs, which means writing about interesting people, places and projects in social care, housing, charities, local government, social enterprise and the public sector. She was a news reporter on national newspapers and an Evening Standard correspondent before leaving news for feature writing.

Saba has strolled around Whiteleys shopping mall in London with Tony Blair, discussed newt-rearing over lunch with Ken Livingstone, been shouted at by John Prescott (admittedly not the only journalist to boast this honour) and pounded Peterborough’s pavements with an ex-advisor to Bill Clinton.

Interviewing former drugs-smuggler Howard Marks was a career high.