Industry professionals
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A series of speaker events with industry professionals takes place throughout 2010-11, relating to particular areas within the cultural and creative industries and building on the academic content of the MA CCI degree programme. The series is organised by Warsan Ali of the Strand Campus Internships Office, and has been designed particularly for the benefit of MA CCI students, but is open to all students at King's.
The events will be held in the Edmond J Safra Lecture Theatre on the Strand Campus, starting at 6pm on Tuesdays.
The events will be held in the Edmond J Safra Lecture Theatre on the Strand Campus, starting at 6pm on Tuesdays.
Tuesday 8 March 2011
Sharon Heal, Editor of Museums Journal
Museums Journal is the leading source of news and information for the museum and gallery sector. Sharon Heal will discuss arts journalism and publishing including the editorial process, how they develop stories, the role of social media plays, and editorial decision making. The talk will provide insight into key issues such as objective journalism and who should be telling stories in the arts. With arts coverage increasingly moving online Sharon will also discuss online versus print publishing and its commercial implications, plus provide an understanding of how cuts in the cultural sector are impacting museums and the arts more generally
Museums Journal is the leading source of news and information for the museum and gallery sector. Sharon Heal will discuss arts journalism and publishing including the editorial process, how they develop stories, the role of social media plays, and editorial decision making. The talk will provide insight into key issues such as objective journalism and who should be telling stories in the arts. With arts coverage increasingly moving online Sharon will also discuss online versus print publishing and its commercial implications, plus provide an understanding of how cuts in the cultural sector are impacting museums and the arts more generally
Tuesday 1 March 2011
Mark Smalley, Producer, BBC Radio 4
Location: CMCI Workspace
Mark Smalley is a BBC radio producer who loves making programmes for BBC Radio 4, the UK's flagship speech radio network with a news and current affairs spine, but which across any week attempts to cover virtually every topic under the sun, from the financial crises in Spain, Greece and Ireland to advising on how to persuade a magnolia bush to grow in a shady position, via comedy, the arts, science and religion. Its characterised by an intelligent, curious, sceptical approach to the world. Crucially, it respects the intelligence of its listeners. There's nothing else like it in the world.
Mark has a background as a news reporter and producer, having worked across many areas of BBC radio including local radio, the national sports network Radio 5Live and broadcasting overseas in English with the BBC World Service. Daily reporting and news journalism has its own discipline, but Mark has found it to ultimately be really quite limiting, though an important education. He has since found considerable freedom and satisfaction directing radio dramas, working with top class dramatists and actors such as Helen Mirren.
Mark will be answering questions about the challenges of finding a way into and through the BBC and its changing role in the UK broadcasting landscape.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00y8vsn
Location: CMCI Workspace
Mark Smalley is a BBC radio producer who loves making programmes for BBC Radio 4, the UK's flagship speech radio network with a news and current affairs spine, but which across any week attempts to cover virtually every topic under the sun, from the financial crises in Spain, Greece and Ireland to advising on how to persuade a magnolia bush to grow in a shady position, via comedy, the arts, science and religion. Its characterised by an intelligent, curious, sceptical approach to the world. Crucially, it respects the intelligence of its listeners. There's nothing else like it in the world.
Mark has a background as a news reporter and producer, having worked across many areas of BBC radio including local radio, the national sports network Radio 5Live and broadcasting overseas in English with the BBC World Service. Daily reporting and news journalism has its own discipline, but Mark has found it to ultimately be really quite limiting, though an important education. He has since found considerable freedom and satisfaction directing radio dramas, working with top class dramatists and actors such as Helen Mirren.
Mark will be answering questions about the challenges of finding a way into and through the BBC and its changing role in the UK broadcasting landscape.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00y8vsn
Tuesday 22 February 2011
Pandora Mather-Lees, Bridgeman Art Library
The Bridgeman Art Library is the world’s leading source of fine art images. Based in London, New York, Paris and Berlin, the Library represents thousands of museums, private collections and artists throughout the world in licensing their images for reproduction. Its clients worldwide include publishers, designers, advertising agencies and other image-using creative professionals.
As joint Managing Director at Bridgeman, Pandora Mather-Lees is responsible for worldwide sales including wholly owned offices in New York, Paris and Berlin as well as Bridgeman’s network of 50 foreign agents. She also engages closely with the image accession, metadata and indexing processes in the library.
Pandora will discuss how clients in the creative industries such as publishers and advertisers use original art images, how the licensing process works and key issues in the digital age. Drawing on her commercial background in the creative industries, Pandora will also take questions on her experiences of marketing, PR and advertising.
The Bridgeman Art Library is the world’s leading source of fine art images. Based in London, New York, Paris and Berlin, the Library represents thousands of museums, private collections and artists throughout the world in licensing their images for reproduction. Its clients worldwide include publishers, designers, advertising agencies and other image-using creative professionals.
As joint Managing Director at Bridgeman, Pandora Mather-Lees is responsible for worldwide sales including wholly owned offices in New York, Paris and Berlin as well as Bridgeman’s network of 50 foreign agents. She also engages closely with the image accession, metadata and indexing processes in the library.
Pandora will discuss how clients in the creative industries such as publishers and advertisers use original art images, how the licensing process works and key issues in the digital age. Drawing on her commercial background in the creative industries, Pandora will also take questions on her experiences of marketing, PR and advertising.
Tuesday 25 January 2011
Herb Kim is perhaps best known as the Founder of the Thinking Digital Conference, a highly successful annual international event which occurs every May at the Sage Gateshead Music Centre. Herb also runs Codeworks – a not for profit company which helps to develop and promote the digital industries of North East England. In addition to Thinking Digital, Codeworks also produces the Gateshead Digital Summer, the GameHorizon Conference and the DIBI Web Conference as well as running Codeworks Connect & GameHorizon – two regional digital company networks. Codeworks also runs its DEV incubator working with promising early stage digital media/technology startups.
In July 2010, Herb was named as one of the MediaGuardian 100 – the Guardian Newspaper’s annual list of the 100 most influential figures across the media industry.
Herb has also been an active member of the TED Conference community since 2006. Since 2009, he has helped produced 10 TEDx events in Newcastle, Liverpool, Sheffield, Manchester, Leeds, Teesside and Doha, Qatar.
Herbert earned his MBA from the Wharton School of Business in Pennsylvania and his undergraduate degree from Princeton University in New Jersey.
Herb will discuss launching Thinking Digital, what Thinking Digital has discovered about future innovation in the digital and creative industries and the influence of social media on business success.
Tuesday 30 November 2010
Tim is a Senior Analyst, Television, at Screen Digest.
He joined the company in September 2004 and has written reports on film and sports rights, animated movies and television on the internet. Tim previously worked for two years at the European Audiovisual Observatory in Strasbourg as an analyst specialising public film and audiovisual funding. He co-authored an Observatory report on the subject and was responsible for KORDA, an online database of film funds. A trained journalist, Tim has worked for the Financial Times and Emap, including a stint as editor of Television Business International. While freelance, Tim wrote three reports for Screen Digest on children's television and animation and wrote for titles including Broadcast, Variety, Ecran Total and The Guardian. He holds a MA (Hons) in English Literature from Trinity College, Cambridge.
Tims talk is entitled: The Business of Children's Television and will focus on the following points;
· Broadcasters will spend €1.21bn on children’s programming in 2010, only marginally more than the €1.17bn they spent in 2006. The overall trend in the world market is stagnation rather than a catastrophic decline.
· Three companies—Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network and the Walt Disney Co—account for 38 per cent of worldwide spending. In US dollar terms they increased their programme expenditure by 4.5 per cent in the last five years.
· Declines in investment by traditional providers in markets like the UK, France and Spain have been counteracted by growth in other markets including Italy, Australia and Norway.
· While public broadcasters continue to act as the mainstay of children’s television in Europe, pay TV companies and some commercial players have are still committed to the genre.
· The increasing deployment of video-on-demand in recent years has not created a new revenue stream for content owners, because broadcasters usually expect to acquire catch-up rights as part of their broadcast licence and do not pay extra.
Tuesday 16 November
Jules Hau, Director, Foundation Agency (Fashion and enterprise)
Jules has been an influential driving force in the evolution of the ethical fashion industry within the UK since 2004, most noticeably her work in sales, highlighting her passion and drive in getting ethical fashion out on to high street and into a mainstream arena. Jules has worked in the fashion industry for over 12 years, focusing in retail and sales. Jules’s worked at Fair Trade pioneers People Tree for over 2 years increasing sales seven fold during her time there. She has worked on the development of numerous brands including: Paul Frank, Dickies, GSUS, Stone Island, Tretorn and Evisu.
Jules set up Foundation Agency in April 2008 starting with just one employee, her! In just under two years, Foundation has increased in staff numbers, added a second department (PR) and grown their client list to include some of the UK and Europe’s most fashionable and well respected ethical fashion and lifestyle brands. Foundation is now a leading sales, PR and brand consultancy.
Jules will discuss the growth of the ethical and sustainable fashion movement, the start-up phase of Foundation and the entrepreneurial behaviours that have made Foundation a success.
Jules has been an influential driving force in the evolution of the ethical fashion industry within the UK since 2004, most noticeably her work in sales, highlighting her passion and drive in getting ethical fashion out on to high street and into a mainstream arena. Jules has worked in the fashion industry for over 12 years, focusing in retail and sales. Jules’s worked at Fair Trade pioneers People Tree for over 2 years increasing sales seven fold during her time there. She has worked on the development of numerous brands including: Paul Frank, Dickies, GSUS, Stone Island, Tretorn and Evisu.
Jules set up Foundation Agency in April 2008 starting with just one employee, her! In just under two years, Foundation has increased in staff numbers, added a second department (PR) and grown their client list to include some of the UK and Europe’s most fashionable and well respected ethical fashion and lifestyle brands. Foundation is now a leading sales, PR and brand consultancy.
Jules will discuss the growth of the ethical and sustainable fashion movement, the start-up phase of Foundation and the entrepreneurial behaviours that have made Foundation a success.
Tuesday 2 November 2010
Melanie Leach, Managing Director, Twofour Broadcast
Melanie was appointed MD of Twofour in 2005 after several successful years as Director of Development. She is responsible for leading the company's management team and continuing to identify new opportunities for growth. She has diversified the company's portfolio and led a drive into entertainment and features that has allowed Twofour to attract top creative talent to the company.
Under her leadership Twofour has doubled in size and now delivers more than 300 hours of programming per annum to the world’s leading broadcasters. Notable highlights include the award winning adventure series Through Hell and High Water and On Thin Ice (BBC2), Channel Five’s ratings buster The Hotel Inspector, special events in the form of A Night for Heroes (ITV1) and Noel’s Christmas Presents (Sky One), long running entertainment brands including Are You Smarter Than A 10 Year Old? (Sky One) and channel defining features such as Big Chef Takes on Little Chef (Channel 4).
Twofour was named Indie of the Year at the 2010 Broadcast Awards.
Prior to assuming her role as MD Melanie worked on a wide range of factual and features output. She series produced more than 500 hours of daytime programming for Channel 4 before progressing to EP on a number of key features titles including The City Gardener (Channel 4) and Britain’s Dream Homes (BBC1).
Melanie was appointed MD of Twofour in 2005 after several successful years as Director of Development. She is responsible for leading the company's management team and continuing to identify new opportunities for growth. She has diversified the company's portfolio and led a drive into entertainment and features that has allowed Twofour to attract top creative talent to the company.
Under her leadership Twofour has doubled in size and now delivers more than 300 hours of programming per annum to the world’s leading broadcasters. Notable highlights include the award winning adventure series Through Hell and High Water and On Thin Ice (BBC2), Channel Five’s ratings buster The Hotel Inspector, special events in the form of A Night for Heroes (ITV1) and Noel’s Christmas Presents (Sky One), long running entertainment brands including Are You Smarter Than A 10 Year Old? (Sky One) and channel defining features such as Big Chef Takes on Little Chef (Channel 4).
Twofour was named Indie of the Year at the 2010 Broadcast Awards.
Prior to assuming her role as MD Melanie worked on a wide range of factual and features output. She series produced more than 500 hours of daytime programming for Channel 4 before progressing to EP on a number of key features titles including The City Gardener (Channel 4) and Britain’s Dream Homes (BBC1).
Chris Carey, Economist, PRS for Music
Chris Carey is an economist at PRS for Music, where he is responsible for analysing and interpreting music trends and providing economic insight to stakeholders and industry professionals. He has spoken at various conferences, universities, and has co-authored the influential 'Adding up the Music Industry' publication. His other research interests include the live music industry, the issues facing investment in emerging artists and the role of government intervention in promoting the arts. An entrepreneur at heart, Chris also manages two bands and runs a small record label. Chris discussed:
• How the music industry works (including who PRS for Music are)
• Where the money is and how it hangs together
• The Long Tail: Theory vs. Reality
• What next online? The impact of digitization and (inevitably) piracy.
Further information about the events will be published on this webpage soon.