The Human Cost of War: A Reporter’s Firsthand Perspective from Ukraine
The Human Cost of War: A Reporter’s Firsthand Perspective from Ukraine
The Human Cost of War: A Reporter’s Firsthand Perspective from Ukraine
Featuring award-winning Journalist and Author Jen Stout
Complimentary for Global Forum Members.
War is often described in impersonal ways – through moves and countermoves, land disputes, and troop movements. But as Jen Stout’s coverage of the war in Ukraine has shown, war is deeply personal; she’s reported from night trains and birthday parties, military hospitals and bunkers. She has compiled these stories into her debut book Night Train to Odesa, which covers the human cost of Russia’s war in Ukraine. Join us for a journalist’s firsthand account of life in a conflict zone.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Jen Stout is an award-winning journalist and author from Shetland. Her debut nonfiction book Night Train to Odesa was named best first book by the Saltire Society and is longlisted for the Highland Book Prize. It was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. Jen has lived in Moscow and Leipzig on international fellowship programs, and in 2022 began freelancing from Ukraine, covering the impact of Russia’s war on ordinary people. Her reporting there was shortlisted for prizes by Amnesty International, the Foreign Press Association, and the Scottish Press Awards; in 2023 she won a traveling scholarship from the Society of Authors. She writes most often for the Sunday Post, Prospect Magazine, and the London Review of Books. Before going freelance she was a local newspaper reporter and a BBC radio and TV journalist. She lives in Edinburgh.
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About the event
Complimentary for Global Forum Members.
War is often described in impersonal ways – through moves and countermoves, land disputes, and troop movements. But as Jen Stout’s coverage of the war in Ukraine has shown, war is deeply personal; she’s reported from night trains and birthday parties, military hospitals and bunkers. She has compiled these stories into her debut book Night Train to Odesa, which covers the human cost of Russia’s war in Ukraine. Join us for a journalist’s firsthand account of life in a conflict zone.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Jen Stout is an award-winning journalist and author from Shetland. Her debut nonfiction book Night Train to Odesa was named best first book by the Saltire Society and is longlisted for the Highland Book Prize. It was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. Jen has lived in Moscow and Leipzig on international fellowship programs, and in 2022 began freelancing from Ukraine, covering the impact of Russia’s war on ordinary people. Her reporting there was shortlisted for prizes by Amnesty International, the Foreign Press Association, and the Scottish Press Awards; in 2023 she won a traveling scholarship from the Society of Authors. She writes most often for the Sunday Post, Prospect Magazine, and the London Review of Books. Before going freelance she was a local newspaper reporter and a BBC radio and TV journalist. She lives in Edinburgh.