John Earls

John Earls (born 25 August 1972) is an English music and sports journalist who serves as reviews editor for Classic Pop. Earls has been a regular contributor to other music magazines such as the NME, Record Collector, and Planet Sound, which he edited from 2001 until its closure in 2009. He is a sporadic football critic for When Saturday Comes.

Earls' work has also appeared in outlets including Newsweek, The Guardian, Drowned in Sound and the Daily Star. For his music criticism, Earls has won publishing industry awards from the British Society of Magazine Editors (BSME) and the Professional Publishers Association (PPA).