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 St George’s, University of London.

Latest Radio Interviews on Russia and Ukraine

Posted On March 14, 2025
Pro-Ukrainian placards opposite the embassy of the Russian Federation, Berlin, February 2023

This week I have given a number of radio interviews on President Trump’s proposal for a ceasefire in the Russia-Ukraine war. My take essentially is that Russia and Ukraine remain too far apart for a ceasefire to work. With the United States having temporarily suspended arms supplies and intelligence sharing with Ukraine, Kyiv had no choice but to offer to go along with the plan. Russia’s case is different. Putin feels that Russia is in the ascendant, and is unlikely to give any substantial response until he has discussed the war with Trump himself. More on the links below

On Thursday 13th March, I spoke to Adrian Chiles on BBC Radio 5 Live (you can listen again here Adrian Chiles – 13/03/2025 – BBC Sounds from 2 hours 18 mins).

On Wednesday 12 March I was on Times Radio, talking to Hugo Rifkind Hugo Rifkind | Times Radio | The Times and The Sunday Times (from 15’00).

And on Saturday 8 March I was on the BBC World Service ‘Weekend Programme’ where I also discussed Gaza, and spoke about my own career move from full time journalism into academia. BBC World Service – Weekend, Europe prepares Ukraine support effort .

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