Sarah Rodman has been covering the entertainment business and pop culture for 30-plus years. 

Following a decade-long stint as a pop music critic and TV critic at the Boston Globe, she headed west to join the Los Angeles Times as the TV editor. There, she oversaw coverage of everything from the Academy Awards to daily TV news in Calendar as well as contributing music reviews and features.

She then headed to Entertainment Weekly as executive editor where she oversaw cover and feature stories and the TV and music sections. Additionally, she contributed reviews and features to the music, TV, film, and stage verticals, including multiple cover stories and the My Must List column.

Sarah previously worked as a staff critic at the Boston Herald and has been a freelance contributor to the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Country Weekly, the Bay State Banner, Radcliffe Magazine, and Netflix’s behind-the-scenes publication Tudum Magazine.

As a media trainer Sarah has helped to prepare a wide range of folks — including award-winning actors, musicians, writers, directors, and executives — to feel more at ease with the press.

A former president of the Television Critics Association, Sarah has moderated over 100 panel discussions with luminaries ranging from Elvis Costello to Samuel L. Jackson to Tessa Thompson and the casts of Ozark and Star Trek: Discovery. She has been a sought-after moderator at ATX Fest, San Diego Comic-Con, and SCAD TV Fest, and hosted conversations for the TV Academy, the WGA, SAG-AFTRA, 92Y, and the LA Times Festival of Books.

In the podcast space, she served as one of the hosts of the Los Angeles Times podcast The Reel discussing awards-season hopefuls with fellow LAT colleagues. As one of the hosts of EW's The Awardist podcast, she conducted interviews with some of TV's brightest stars including Ted Danson, Cate Blanchett, and Kenan Thompson.

She has written dozens of album bios for Grammy-, CMA-, and Americana- award winning artists including Brandi Carlile, Garbage, and T Bone Burnett.

As a commentator Sarah has appeared on myriad networks discussing pop culture— notably the Grammys, the Emmys, and the CMA Awards — and in various documentaries including The Nineties, The 2000s, Inside the 68th Grammy Awards, The Story of Late Night, and The ‘90s Boy Band Boom. 

For the last five years, Sarah served as the Head of Written Communications at Netflix where she led a team of writers working on a variety of written materials, including press notes and talking points, and provided media training to executives and creatives to support Netflix original series and films.