RECRUITMENT Ins and Outs: MCV Special
Another one to leave games for the music industry, TIM INGHAM was for a number of years the deputy editor under Neil Long, before becoming the online editor of the MCV website and associate editor of the magazine. He joined CVG at Future in 2010, before becoming the editor of Music Week in 2011 when Dave Roberts was publisher. He founded Music Business Worldwide in 2015.
Joining from Live Publishing in 2004,
MATT MARTIN was for nine months MCV’s deputy editor. He left in 2006 to join
GamesIndustry.biz as the site’s european editor, where he remained for seven years. Another seven years was spent as the editor-in-chief of VG247 before a short spell at Mojang Studios. Currently Matt is a freelance editorial consultant.
One of MCV’s longest-serving staff members, BEN PARFITT joined the team in 2005 and stuck it out for more than eleven years, during which time he looked after the website and became associate editor, eventually moving on when MCV moved to London and Seth Barton took the editorship at the end of 2016. He then swapped the media for the studio, joining Jagex as associate editorial director before moving to head up Creative Assembly’s editorial operations.
Joining as MCV staff writer in 2005,
ANDREW WOODEN floated around and up within Intent Media for many years before becoming NewBay’s interactive entertainment content director in 2015, overseeing both MCV and Develop. Since moving on in 2017, Andrew has held various lead editorial roles, most recently at Moneysupermarket and Hennik Research. He is currently the deputy editor of
Telecoms.com
MCV hasn’t had a deputy editor since 2017, when ALEX CALVIN, who’d been on MCV since 2013, left to help Michael French with the London Games Festival. Since then he helped launch and edit PCGamesInsider. biz where he’s a contributing editor, and over recent years has become an established author and photographer.
GamesIndustry.biz’s current editor-in- chief JAMES BATCHELOR joined MCV as a staff writer back at the tail end of 2008, becoming deputy editor to Chris Dring in 2012 before accepting the editorship of Develop when NewBay acquired Intent Media the following year. Since joining
GI.biz seven years ago, James has written a number of books, most recently The Best Non-Violent Video Games, which is available now from all good retailers.
Getting his start in the industry freelancing for gamesTM magazine, DOMINIC SACCO joined MCV in 2010 and was a staff writer for more than two years before moving across to sister titles ToyNews and PCR. Since then Dominic has been focused on esports, becoming head of content at the British Esports Federation and founding Esports News UK, which he currently edits.
Spending more than nine years on MCV, CHRIS DRING joined the team in 2007 as editorial assistant, steadily rising through the ranks under Michael French’s watch as EIC to become MCV’s associate editor in 2011, then editor in October 2013. Chris departed for GamesIndustry. biz in 2016, more or less at the same time as Develop’s editor, James Batchelor, did the same.
Since 2020 he’s been ReedPop’s head of games B2B, overseeing
GamesIndustry.biz and its events.
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