Jessica Bateman is a British freelance journalist covering social and human rights issues around Europe. She is a regular contributor to the BBC and has reported several radio documentaries for its World Service, one of which was a finalist in the New York Radio Awards Best Documentary category. Her writing has also appeared in The Guardian, The Economist 1843, Wired, The Nation, Foreign Policy and many more, and she has been awarded grants and fellowships from the International Journalistin Programme, journalismfund.eu and the Alfred Toepfer Stiftung. In 2020 she was lead editor on Summer of Solidarity, a Europe-wide pop-up collaborative journalism project.
