James Rodgers, writer and journalist

BOOKS

About books and other writing by James Rodgers

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 departments of International Politics and Journalism at City St George’s, University of London.

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

Tag: Iraq

Twenty-five Years after 9/11: Politics, Journalism, and War

September 10, 2026

A detail of a memorial to firefighters who died in the 9/11 attacks, New York, July 2024 © James Rodgers This post is an article I was invited to write for the European Journalism Observatory. You can see it on their website here. Full text below. JOURNALISTS HATE TO...

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Contact

Email reportingconflict@hotmail.com.

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