Jen Stout

Jen Stout is an award-winning journalist, author, and radio producer from Scotland who has spent significant time in Ukraine reporting on the war.

Positions

Freelance Journalist:

Sept 2021 - Present

Alfa Fellowship, Moscow

Nov 2021 - Mar 2022

Journalist, BBC Scotland

2018 - 2021

Journalist, MDR, Leipzig (IJP Intern):

Oct - Dec 2019

Reporter, Stranraer & Wigtownshire Free Press

2017 - 2018

Reporter, CommonSpace, Glasgow

2015 - 2016

City of Liverpool College, Jan - Jul 2017

Diploma, National Council for the Training of Journalists

University of Edinburgh, 2013 - 2015

Sociology MRes (Postgraduate General Certificate)

University of Edinburgh, 2007 - 2012

MA (Hons) Sociology (First Class)

Shortlisted for the Foreign Press Association awards, arts and culture category, 2023

Shortlisted for the Anne Brown Essay Prize, 2023

Travelling Scholarship, Society of Authors, 2023

Runner-up Reporter of the Year, Scottish Press Awards, 2023

Shortlisted, Amnesty Media Awards, 2023

Shortlisted, Best Investigation, Freelance Journalism Awards, 2023

Rory Peck Trust training bursary, 2022

Alfa Fellowship, Moscow, 2021-2022 (cut short due to invasion of Ukraine)

Offered Erasmus Mundus scholarship, Russian & East European Studies, 2020

George Weidenfeld Bursary, International Journalists' Programme, 2019

Longlisted for Financial Times Paul McLean trainee programme, 2018

Bakala Journalism scholarship, Prague - August 2017

Scholarship + New Statesman internship, Journalism Diversity Fund, 2017

Coverage of protests against deportations in Glasgow awarded 'Highly commended' by Scottish Refugee Council, 2016

Final shortlist candidate for Channel 4 Dispatches traineeship, 2015

Awarded 4-year ESRC PhD scholarship, 2012

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