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.

REPORTING RUSSIA: LIVE BOOK EVENT AT THE FRONTLINE CLUB, LONDON, 10 MAY 2022

Posted On May 5, 2022

Russia’s war in Ukraine has put journalism on the frontline both in covering the fighting itself, and in the way that new laws have made independent journalism in Russia all but impossible. These are just some of the issues I will be discussing in conversation with Nanette van der Laan, senior producer at Channel 4 News, who has herself covered Russia since the 1990s.

We will be at the Frontline Club in London from 7pm on Tuesday 10th May. Please join us if you are in London that day.

Signed, discounted, copies of Assignment Moscow will be for sale (please note: cash or PayPal only).

More details and tickets here.

You can also read my latest writing on Russia for The New European on the link below

How Russia’s day of remembrance became Putin’s day of propaganda – The New European .

(This event has been rearranged from March 1st, when it was postponed due to a transport strike in London)

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