ABOUT

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, University of London.

Assignment Moscow: ‘History Today’ podcast

Posted On January 6, 2021

I spoke recently to Paul Lay, Editor of History Today, for an episode of the magazine’s podcast. You can listen to the podcast on Spotify or Apple Podcasts from the links below, and you can read History Today‘s review of Assignment Moscow here.

You can buy the book direct from the publisher’s website; from Bookshop.org; from Waterstones; or from Amazon.

My thanks once again to everyone who has bought the book. If you have read it, please consider leaving a review on Amazon.

Spotify – Foreign Correspondents in the Soviet Union – History Today Podcast | Podcast on Spotify

‎History Today Podcast: Foreign Correspondents in the Soviet Union on Apple Podcasts

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