Liz Cookman is a freelance foreign correspondent based in Ukraine, having relocated to the country in the tense months preceding Russia’s full-scale invasion and remaining throughout the full-scale war. She currently lives in Kyiv after stints in Dnipro and Mariupol. Liz focuses on the human cost of the conflict, producing on-the-ground reports, in-depth features and investigations for international outlets, including The Economist 1843, The Guardian, The Telegraph and The Sunday Times. In 2024, she was named both Best Print Journalist and Best Specialist Journalist at the Freelance Journalism Awards, and won the inaugural The Irish Times Dave McKechnie Memorial Journalism Prize.
Liz Cookman
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Liz Cookman is a freelance foreign correspondent based in Ukraine, having relocated to the country in the tense months preceding Russia’s full-scale invasion and remaining throughout the full-scale war. She currently lives in Kyiv after stints in Dnipro and Mariupol. Liz focuses on the human cost of the conflict, producing on-the-ground reports, in-depth features and investigations for international outlets, including The Economist 1843, The Guardian, The Telegraph and The Sunday Times. In 2024, she was named both Best Print Journalist and Best Specialist Journalist at the Freelance Journalism Awards, and won the inaugural The Irish Times Dave McKechnie Memorial Journalism Prize.
