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.

The author in Berlin, February 2023. Photo © Kevin Cummins

New Books Network Podcast on ‘Assignment Moscow’

On 18 August, I spoke to Paul Starobin for his ‘America and Beyond’ podcast (part of the New Books Network). Paul and I spoke for almost an hour about Assignment Moscow, and more.

We talked about the experiences of foreign correspondents in Russia during Russia’s revolutionary year of 1917, the Stalin era, and the last years of the Soviet Union–when my own time reporting from Russia started. You can listen here “Assignment Moscow” with author James Rodgers – New Books Network .

My thanks to Paul for the chance to be on his podcast. There are more details of ‘America and Beyond’, and more episodes, here.

Assignment Moscow is currently discounted on the publisher’s website, available for just £11.89 in the UK or $16.06 in the US–a saving of 30%.