Contributors CLIFF FLUET
DAVE ROBERTS
EAMONN FORDE
Cliff Fluet is a partner within Lewis Silkin’s Creators, Makers and Innovators Division and founded its media practice. He previously worked at Warner Music and Capital Radio PLC. He is also Managing Director at Eleven, an advisory firm working with incumbents and insurgents in digital media and leading companies in the AI space.
Dave Roberts is the Associate Publisher of Music Business UK and its parent, Music Business Worldwide (MBW). Before joining MBW in 2017, Roberts was the publisher of Music Week. In this issue, he interviews the likes of GRM Daily co-founder & CEO, Posty, plus former Virgin Records boss Paul Conroy and BMG’s Jamie Nelson and Gemma Reilly.
Eamonn Forde has been writing about all areas of the music business since 2001. He is Reports Editor at Music Ally and regularly writes for IQ, The Guardian, The Big Issue, Q and The Quietus among other titles. He completed his PhD at University of Westminster in 2001. His book, The Final Days of EMI: Selling The Pig, is out now via Omnibus Press.
KIERON DONOGHUE
PETER ROBINSON
RHIAN JONES
Peter Robinson has been a music journalist for over 20 years, and keeps a keen eye on the global entertainment industry. Robinson has written for the likes of The Guardian, The Times, TIME, Noisey, i-D, Smash Hits, Q Magazine, Time Out, Attitude, Notion and The Telegraph, and runs his own must-read online publication over on Popjustice.
Rhian Jones is a respected freelance journalist who often focuses on the music industry. In addition to writing regularly for Music Business UK and Hits Daily Double, she is a Contributing Editor for Music Business Worldwide. In this issue, Jones interviews NQ founder Michael Adex and YMU’s Sarita Borge, and writes about the health of artists.
Kieron Donoghue is the founder of Humble Angel Records, and the creator of Warner Music Group’s flagship playlist brand, Topsify. Donoghue became global streaming playlist strategy boss at Warner after the major acquired his Playlists.net in 2014. Donoghue led Topsify’s global strategy at Warner for the subsequent three years.
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