Jude Rogers


Jude Rogers is a Welsh journalist and lecturer who is a music critic for The Guardian. She also regularly writes features and articles for The Observer, New Statesman and women's magazines such as Red. Her articles have also been published by The Times and by BBC Music and she broadcasts on BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 4 and BBC 6 Music. She is a senior lecturer in journalism at London Metropolitan University.

Early life and education

Rogers was born and bred in two villages near Swansea, where she went to comprehensive school. In 1997 Rogers became president of the student union at Wadham College, Oxford. She has an English degree from the University of Oxford and an MA from Royal Holloway.

Professional career

In 2003, Rogers co-founded the magazine Smoke: a London Peculiar. After working as reviews editor on The Word, she became a full-time freelancer in 2007.
She has been a judge on several music prize panels, including the Welsh Music Prize and the Mercury Prize, and was one of ten experts chosen to write for the University of Westminster's MusicTank 10:10 project, writing about the future of music journalism.
In 2017 she scripted an audio guided tour, narrated by Jarvis Cocker, for the Southbank Centre's exhibition ABBA: Super Troupers on the Swedish pop group ABBA.

Personal life

She and her husband Dan, whom she married in 2011, have a son, Evan, born in 2014. They live in Wales, having moved there in 2016 from Leyton, north east London.

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