REPORTING RUSSIA: LIVE BOOK EVENT AT THE FRONTLINE CLUB, LONDON, 10 MAY 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...
Assignment Moscow: update March 2022
‘THE STORY OF Western correspondents in Russia is the story of Russia’s attitude to the West.’ So opens the final chapter of my book, Assignment Moscow: Reporting on Russia from Lenin to Putin . This worst of times for Russia’s relations with the West has also become the worst...
Live Book Event: ‘Assignment Moscow’ at the Frontline Club, London. March 1st
My first live, in-person, event to discuss ‘Assignment Moscow’ will be at the Frontline Club in London on March 1st, 2022. If you are in London that evening, please come along. There are more details here , including how to book tickets. The book tells the story of the...
Chronicles Of A Collapse: Journalism And The End Of Soviet History
This post is an article originally published on The Conversation, as, ‘Writing history: 30 years on, a former Moscow correspondent reflects on the end of the USSR’. It includes reflections on the relationship between journalism and history, and explains why–in the Journalism department where I teach–we are launching a new...
New for November 2021: latest journalism, and upcoming in-person book events
AS MY PHYSICAL WORLD CONTRACTED in London’s lockdowns over the last eighteen months and more, so I sometimes found my intellectual and imaginative world seemed to contract, too. I never imagined I would miss commuting on the London underground, but I did miss the stimulation that came with movement...
Reporting The End Of Soviet Superpower: Moscow, Summer 1991
My article ‘This Story Has A Long Way To Run‘ in the current British Journalism Review reflects on my experience covering the end of the Soviet Union thirty years ago–and what has come since. I’ll be discussing this–and other ideas in my latest book Assignment Moscow: Reporting on Russia...
Assignment Moscow at the Chiswick Book Festival 2020
The Chiswick Book festival 2020 took place almost entirely online–although I was one of the lucky local west London authors who was able to record a promo for their work in the Chiswick Playhouse (it was great to be in a theatre, however briefly). You can watch the video...
Assignment Moscow: latest media coverage
This week I spoke to Andrew Mueller on Monocle 24 about the ideas in Assignment Moscow: Reporting on Russian from Lenin to Putin . You can listen to the interview here https://monocle.com/radio/shows/the-briefing/2302/reporting-russia/ and you can read a review of the book by Ellie Holbrook in the current issue of...
Assignment Moscow: Russia’s Story From Lenin To Putin
I outlined some of my ideas from Assignment Moscow: Reporting on Russia from Lenin to Putin in a recent piece for The Conversation. I am republishing it here. WHAT A CONTRAST IT WAS. In early May 2000, Vladimir Putin strode through the Kremlin’s gilded corridors, his progress relayed on...
Now Out: Assignment Moscow ‘Beautifully written, fascinating throughout’
MY NEW BOOK, Assignment Moscow: Reporting on Russia from Lenin to Putin has now been published in the U.S. and the U.K. You can order copies, and read more about the book, here for the U.K, edition (here for the U.S. edition). These are the reviews so far “Reporting...