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: Upcoming Events

Posted On October 23, 2020

I have two upcoming talks on my new book, Assignment Moscow: Reporting on Russia From Lenin to Putin. Both will be taking place on Zoom. Please book a place and join the discussion!

The first is organized by Pushkin House on Tuesday 27th October at 1800 GMT. Details here.

The second is a Conway Hall event, part of their ‘Thinking on Sunday’ series. That is on 1st November at 1500 GMT. Details of that here.

It is a strange year to publish a book. In common with other authors who have published this year, my hopes and plans for live launch events, and appearances at book festivals, have had to be cancelled or altered, so I am really grateful to both Pushkin House and Conway Hall for these opportunities to talk to online audiences.

You can read more about Assignment Moscow, and see extracts from the reviews, here, on the publisher’s website.

A note of thanks to everyone who has bought the book so far. If you are one of them, please consider leaving a review on Amazon.

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