Ben Sisario is an American academic, author and journalist. He is a staff reporter for The New York Times, covering music and culture. Sisario is a contributor to Blender, New York, Rolling Stone, Spin, New York City public-radio station WFUV and The Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop music critics' poll. He is also a member of the teaching faculty at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, instructing courses on Rock Music in Historical Context and Writing for Popular Music.