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: latest media coverage

Posted On September 5, 2020

This week I spoke to Andrew Mueller on Monocle 24 about the ideas in Assignment Moscow: Reporting on Russian from Lenin to Putin .

You can listen to the interview here

https://monocle.com/radio/shows/the-briefing/2302/reporting-russia/

and you can read a review of the book by Ellie Holbrook in the current issue of History Today ‘Assignment Moscow exposes how the Moscow correspondent has had to adapt to multiple manifestations of censorship, or compete with state-run media, the severity of which has ebbed and flowed with changes in regime,’ she writes. ‘Rodgers knows his subject well, after numerous postings in Moscow and the Caucasus.’

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