Dr James Rodgers is Reader (Associate Professor) in International Journalism). Since September 2022, he has been the programme director of the BA Journalism, Politics and History.
He teaches the MA International Journalism (International News), and the BA Journalism (Introduction to News Writing; Reporting Conflict), as well as supervising PhD students and postgraduate and undergraduate dissertations.
He is the author of four books on international affairs. His latest is 'Assignment Moscow: reporting on Russia from Lenin to Putin' (I.B Tauris, 2020; new edition published by Bloomsbury in May 2023).
James' next book, on Russia and the West, is due to be published in 2025 by Yale University Press.
Before entering Journalism academia full time in 2010, James was a journalist for twenty years. He spent fifteen years at the BBC, completing correspondent postings in Moscow, Brussels, and Gaza, as well as numerous other assignments. These included reporting from New York and Washington after 9/11, and covering the war in Iraq in 2003 and 2004.
