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PERSONNEL MUSIC WEEK GROWS TEAM WITH NEW EDITORIAL HIRE INTENT MEDIA
Music Week has hired RHIAN JONES as editorial assistant. She joins the team following a role as an apprentice for education journalist Janet Murray. Music Week editor Tim Ingham
said of the appointment: “We’re very happy to welcome Rhian on board the good ship Music Week. She’s passionate about music, keen to learn the ropes of the business and her journalism experience even at this early stage speaks for itself.” Jones has previously written
blogs for The Guardian and Independent and has had further work published in print in The Guardian education section and Music Teachermagazine.
INSIDE/OUT CAROLINE BEASHEL joins the recently launched publicity, consultancy, events and management services company founded by Chloe Melick an Adrian Read which boasts Temper Trap and Lady Gaga on its artist roster. She joins from Warner Music
where she most recently held the position of digital promotions manager, overseeing campaigns for artists including Biffy Clyro, The Black Keys and Michael Bublé – as well as emerging new UK talent such as Stooshe, Lianne La Havas and YADi. Beashel is also the
co-founder of the hugely successful Oh! Inverted World club night which launched in 2006 and Oh! Inverted World Records which followed two years later.
ACADEMY MUSIC GROUP The music group has appointed SEAN MORGAN in a consultancy role. He joins AMG after 22
years at Manchester Academy where he was venue manager and in-house booker. AMG’s chief operating officer,
Graham Walters said: “Sean has a wealth of experience and will be looking at our venue portfolio with a view to generate new business and enhance programming. Over the years, Sean has
developed and maintained excellent relationships with agents and promoters and he is sure to bring new ideas to the table.”
UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP Running alongside its two existing classical labels Deutsche
Elsewhere at UMG, LAURENT
HULIN has been promoted to vice president, emerging markets, a new post that is based in Paris. Hulin is responsible for
developing and enacting strategies to expand Universal Music’s business in emerging markets,
Grammophon and Decca, UMG recently launched new classical music label, Mercury Classics, and has appointed DR ALEXANDER BUHR as its managing director. Buhr will continue to work with
Milos and Tori Amos as joint ventures. Future projects are to be developed exclusively for Mercury Classics and will be announced in due course.
Warner Music Group has appointed TIM FRASER-HARDING as senior vice president, Global Catalogue Management, moving from Sony Music where he was most recently VP International Catalogue Marketing Group. Fraser-Harding will oversee
marketing and sales campaigns designed to drive recorded music catalogue across all WMG’s worldwide markets as well as identifying new opportunities for catalogue assets including the creation of new product lines and developing strategies around associated rights.
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MY BIG BREAK Stephen Emms Founder, Emms Publicity
"Growing up I only ever really loved two things: music and writing. So graduating with a first in English Literature I was drawn towards music journalism. “After interning at various teen
Jon Webster started his career in the music industry as a shop assistant for Virgin in the seventies. In the Eighties he was still working for the company but this time at its record label, as he rose from a sales manager role to managing director. In the early nineties he set
up his own company and worked with acts including Genesis, UB40, Mike and the Mechanics and Erasure. He also worked in artist
management and set up an internet sales label. Some of his notable
career achievements include playing a key part in developing the Now! That’s What I Call Music brand, founding the Mercury Music Prize and writing a column for Music Week for 10 years. In the noughties, Webster
was appointed director, Independent Member Services at the BPI and chief executive of the Music Managers’ forum.
and lifestyle mags, I found myself being offered a job at a new music PR company called The Point, run by Chris Poole, who had just split with his business partner Alan Edwards (now of Outside Organisation). “Within a couple of years he
had promoted me to Head of Press, and by 2001 I decided to go it alone and start EMMS Publicity. We’ve been going for over a decade now and are as busy as we’ve ever been, as well as having branched out into artist management and a micro record label. And happily enough, I’ve always managed to juggle my love of both music and writing with journalism alongside the PR duties.”
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