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This is a site about the books and other writing by James Rodgers, author of Assignment Moscow: Reporting on Russia From Lenin to Putin (new edition 2023; first published July 2020); Headlines from the Holy Land (2015 and 2017); No Road Home: Fighting for Land and Faith in Gaza (2013); Reporting Conflict (2012). My work looks at how stories of international affairs, especially armed conflict, are told to the world.

BIOGRAPHY

I am an author and journalist. During two decades of covering international news, I reported on the end of the Soviet Union; the wars in Chechnya; the coming to power of Vladimir Putin; 9/11; the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; the 2003 war in Iraq; Russia’s war with Georgia in 2008. I completed correspondent postings for the BBC in Moscow, Brussels, and Gaza. I now teach in the Journalism Department at City St George’s, University of London.

Assignment Moscow at the Chiswick Book Festival 2020

Posted On September 19, 2020

The Chiswick Book festival 2020 took place almost entirely online–although I was one of the lucky local west London authors who was able to record a promo for their work in the Chiswick Playhouse (it was great to be in a theatre, however briefly).

You can watch the video recorded by Chiswickbuzz.net at the end of this post (my two minute pitch starts at 29’16), but for a more detailed account of the stories and ideas in the book, listen here to an interview I did with Bridget Osborne, editor of the Chiswick Calendar, part of a series of podcasts she recorded for the Book Festival.

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