I’m almost 55 years old, grew up near Rockford and I’m listening to a Cheap Trick record as I write this. Sounds clichéd, right? Do I seem less of a stereotype if I tell you that I’m listening to the band’s 1994 release, “Woke Up With A Monster?,” which no one but the band members […]
Jeff Rogers
Jeff Rogers is the editor of Capitol News Illinois. He has been director of the Illinois Press Foundation since October 2018.
Before joining the Foundation, Rogers had been a newspaper editor in Illinois and Wisconsin since 1994. He was editor of daily papers in Freeport and Galesburg in Illinois, and in Monroe, Wisconsin. He also was editor of the Freeport iNK weekly newspaper from 2003 to 2005. For the past nine years, Rogers was editor of the Daily Gazette of Sterling and the Telegraph of Dixon, daily paper owned and operated by Shaw Media.
Rogers is a 1988 graduate of Bradley University in Peoria. He grew up in Lanark, in northwest Illinois.
