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.

May 2021: elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

Posted On May 19, 2021

I am delighted to announce that I have been elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, in recognition of my ‘contribution to the discipline of History’.

I am extremely grateful that my work has been honoured in this way. As a journalist reporting on international affairs, I was always a great reader of History, as I believe any correspondent must be in order properly to understand the stories they are covering. Now, as an author, I have tried to write books that can assist that understanding.

As a fellow of the Society, which ‘represents history as a discipline and historians as a group’ I hope to make a contribution to their work at a time when governments increasingly seek to exploit their versions of history to further their own political ends.

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