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Jez Nelson and Steve Ackerman Somethin Else executives Steve Ackerman and Jez Nelson will jointly spearhead the labels podcast content and business development strategy. Sony Music Entertainment announced Wednesday (June 16) that it has acquired U.K.-based podcast, TV and social media producer Somethin’ Else, marking the latest acceleration in the company’s aggressive podcasting push. The acquisition follows a previous global deal the companies struck in February 2020 to develop original p...

Courtesy of Keturah Cummings The UK-based production company led by Renay Richardson formed a joint venture with Sony Music Entertainment to make socially conscious audio content for global audiences. WME has signed the UK-based podcast production house Broccoli Productions with an eye to empowering minority talent both in front and behind the microphone. Broccoli Productions (formerly Broccoli Content) was founded in 2018 by award-winning producer Renay Richardson after the success of her indi...

Last modified on Tue 26 Jan 2021 12.42 EST The architect Louis Kahn once wrote that “a city is the place of availabilities. It is the place where a small boy, as he walks through it, may see something that will tell him what he wants to do his whole life.” In my immediate vicinity, a working-class area of Sheffield, there wasn’t much suggestion that a writing career might be open to someone like me. Few of the people I was taught about at school were from a place like mine, or even wrote ...