Jody Rosen is an American journalist and author. He is the music critic for the online magazine Slate

Slate (magazine)

Slate is a US-based English language online current affairs and culture magazine created in 1996 by former New Republic editor Michael Kinsley, initially under the ownership of Microsoft as part of MSN. On 21 December 2004 it was purchased by the Washington Post Company...

, and the author of White Christmas: The Story of an American Song.

In 2006, Rosen compiled Jewface, a controversial anthology of early 20th-century novelty song

Novelty song

A novelty song is a comical or nonsensical song, performed principally for its comical effect. Humorous songs, or those containing humorous elements, are not necessarily novelty songs. The term arose in Tin Pan Alley to describe one of the major divisions of popular music. The other two divisions...

s about Jewish characters.

On March 27, 2008 Rosen’s front page New York Times article reported the discovery by American audio historians of French inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville

Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville

Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville was a French printer and bookseller who lived in Paris. He invented the earliest known sound recording device, the phonautograph, which was patented in France on 25 March 1857....

’s 1860 phonautograph

Phonautograph

The phonautograph is the earliest known device for recording sound. Previously, tracings had been obtained of the sound-producing vibratory motions of tuning forks and other objects by physical contact with them, but not of actual sound waves as they propagated through air or other media. Invented...

 recording, the earliest known recording of the human voice to be played back.

In August 2008, Rosen’s Slate article “Dude, You Stole My Article” exposed a plagiarism scandal at the The Bulletin

The Bulletin (alternative weekly)

The Montgomery County Bulletin or simply The Bulletin is a now defunct free alternative weekly newspaper distributed in Montgomery County, Texas; a suburban county north of Houston. It claimed a circulation of 20,000 copies before being forced out of business in 2008 due to evidence of massive...

, a free alternative weekly newspaper in Montgomery County, Texas

Montgomery County, Texas

Montgomery County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area. The county was created by an act of the Congress of the Republic of Texas on December 14, 1837. The county was named for the town of Montgomery, Texas. In 2000, its...

. The Bulletin folded shortly after the publication of Rosen’s exposé.

In May 2011, Rosen was among the first who reviewed Lady Gaga

Lady GaGa

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta , better known by her stage name Lady Gaga, is an American singer and songwriter. Born and raised in New York City, she primarily studied at the Convent of the Sacred Heart and briefly attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts before withdrawing to...

's second full-length album Born This Way

Born This Way

Born This Way is the second studio album by American recording artist Lady Gaga that was released on May 23, 2011, by Interscope Records. The album is a follow-up to her internationally-successful albums The Fame and The Fame Monster...

after the contents were leaked online a few days before its released.