Liz Cookman
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Liz Cookman is a correspondent based in Turkey with significant experience covering conflict and crises, and their human toll.
She was previously based full time in Ukraine, reporting from the front lines of Russia’s invasion, and has covered the fall of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh, the cost of global aid cuts in Somalia, and other major international stories. She began her career as a foreign desk editor in the Middle East.
In 2025, she was awarded a British Journalism Award for Features Journalism. She received Amnesty International’s Gaby Rado New Journalist Award in 2023 and has won two Freelance Journalism Awards, as well as The Irish Times’ Dave McKechnie Memorial Journalism Prize.
She has been shortlisted twice for the Prix Bayeux and for several other honors, including the Kurt Schork Prize. Cookman is also a recipient of the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Howard G. Buffett Reporting Grant.
