Jude Rogers

Jude Rogers (born 1978) 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.

She 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.

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.

She married in 2011. She and her husband Dan live in Leyton, north east London and have a son, Evan, born in 2014.