Rogers, who completed a newspaper journalism course at City University in 1991, is the editor of the Guardian's Datablog and Datastore. He received a special commendation when the Datablog won a Royal Statistcal Society award last year.
Six journalists have been shortlisted for the XCity award in total. A post on the XCity magazine website says other shortlisted candidates will be revealed over the next few days.
The winner will receive a £500 prize.
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