Jen Stout

Jen Stout is a Scottish freelance journalist whose reporting has provided sharp insights into global politics and the human cost of conflict. Her most recent work has focused on the war in Ukraine, and she has contributed to publications including BBC Radio, the London Review of Books, Prospect and the Sunday Post. With a background in investigative journalism and long-form reporting, she is a frequent speaker and debate moderator on topics including war reporting, politics and media ethics.

Jen Stout began her career in local journalism, working for CommonSpace and the Stranraer & Wigtownshire Free Press, before moving to the BBC, where she worked in television and radio.

A graduate of the Alfa Fellowship in Moscow (which was cut short by Russia's invasion of Ukraine), Stout has also won awards, including the Rory Peck Trust Bursary (2022) and the Society of Authors' Travelling Scholarship (2023). Her reporting on Ukraine has been shortlisted for prestigious awards, including the Amnesty International Media and Scottish Press Awards.

Jen Stout's first book, Night Train to Odesa (2024), is an intimate and gripping account of the war in Ukraine based on her first-hand experience of reporting from the front line. The book begins with Stout's abrupt departure from Moscow at the start of the war, taking her to Romania and across Ukraine. Through night trains, military hospitals, bombed-out cities and fleeting birthday celebrations in bunkers, she documents the resilience and humanity of Ukrainians under siege.

The book is both vivid reportage and a deeply personal narrative. A solo freelance journalist with limited institutional support, Stout writes with extraordinary empathy and honesty, offering readers a window into the lives of ordinary people thrust into extraordinary circumstances. Critics have hailed her work as a "luminous love letter to an embattled nation" (The Observer), with others comparing it to the classic war reporting of Martha Gellhorn.

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NIGHT TRAIN TO ODESA

‘Jen Stout is very brave. And she is a storyteller of supreme gifts.
I am in awe of her resourcefulness and courage’

FERGAL KEANE, Foreign Correspondent with BBC News

‘Jam-packed with vivid insight and empathy,
journalism that’s full of heart’

PARAIC O’BRIEN, Foreign Affairs

Correspondent with Channel 4 News

‘Jen Stout has a rare gift for rendering moments in time, and her
descriptions of nature, season and landscape are beautifully etched,
often hauntingly so. This is the work of a writer with
an exciting future ahead of her’

JON LEE ANDERSON, author, war correspondent,
AND STAFF WRITER for The New Yorker

‘Night Train to Odesa is unlike any other book you’ll read on Russia’s
invasion of Ukraine. Her reporting is caring and immediate
and this account is honest, intelligent, and visceral’

QUENTIN SOMMERVILLE, BBC’s Middle East Correspondent

‘Jen Stout shows not only great courage in her reporting
on the ground, but the immense human cost of
war, told with passion and clarity’

JANINE DI GIOVANNI, award-winning author,
journalist and war correspondent

‘Jen Stout’s writing fizzes with energy, passion and, above all,
compassion for the characters she meets whose lives have been turned
upside down by a conflict they never wanted’

PETER GEOGHEGAN, author, broadcaster and contributing journalist
for The New York Times, the Guardian and London Review of Books

‘A must-read for anyone interested in the impact of
the Russian invasion’

DANI GARAVELLI, award-winning journalist

‘A celebration of Ukraine and a lament for it. This extraordinary
book may have been written in compassion and anger,
but the note that rings out is love’

PETER ROSS, Orwell journalism fellow and award-winning
author of Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church

‘Night Train to Odesa is a thrilling read. Rich in reportage and infused
with a deep knowledge of Ukraine, it is a masterful
book from one of the best young journalists in Britain’

DAVID PATRIKARAKOS, author, journalist
and war correspondent

‘Jen Stout’s heart-seizing account of Ukraine at war brings
us that nation’s living presence like no other book’
NEAL ASCHERSON, author and award-winning journalist

‘Night Train to Odesa is by turns sad and inspiring
– and unfailingly fascinating’
JAMES RODGERS, author of Assignment Moscow:
Reporting on Russia from Lenin to Putin

‘In Night Train to Odesa Jen Stout connects us intimately to the story of
a nation rising in defiance. She weaves deep sympathy for the human
struggle with a layered understanding of history, politics, and the
complex loyalties of a society under threat’

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