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.

Tag: WWII

Reporting on World War II From the Soviet Union

October 10, 2020
I have just had a post published on the BBC History Research web page. You can read the post, which includes pictures from the BBC archives, here. Full text follows below. JOURNALISM AND HISTORY: the former is frequently called the first draft of the latter, but often drawing on...

For VE Day 75: Crossing A Continent Still Scarred By War

May 8, 2020
I STARTED MY LONGEST EVER OVERLAND JOURNEY on a London bus to Hammersmith. From there, I took the underground to St Pancras. On the Eurostar, I crossed the English channel below its busy shipping lanes. After an afternoon in Paris, I was at the Gare de l’Est, ticket in...