SMIA Creative Conversations: Stuart Cosgrove

SMIA Creative Conversations are a series of inspirational events hosted by the Scottish Music Industry Association (SMIA). The events take the form of a chat show style interview, with a different music industry practitioner being interviewed at each event. The purpose of SMIA Creative Conversations is to allow insights, experience and best practice to be shared with others working in the music industry.
SMIA Creative Conversations: Stuart Cosgrove took place at Hard Rock Cafe Glasgow on 1 March 2017. Stuart was in conversation with SMIA Executive Chair Dougal Perman, discussing his journey through music journalism (including his time as Media Editor at the NME and The Face during the 1980s), with reflections on the state of music media today, and opportunities posed by it.
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About Stuart Cosgrove
Stuart Cosgrove is from Perth, Scotland and is a writer and broadcaster. He is the author of 'Detroit 67: The Year that Changed Soul' recently nominated as Best Music Book of 2016 'Young Soul Rebels: a Personal History of Northern Soul' and the forthcoming 'Memphis 68.' He was a staff writer with the black music paper Echoes, Media Editor of the NME and a television executive with the UK broadcaster Channel 4.
A graduate of Hull University, he completed a PhD. in modern American theatre history and won a UK Academy Award for his post-doctoral essay 'The Zoot Suit and Style Warfare'. He has since studied at Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania and the John Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Stuart is an Honorary Fellow of John Moores University Liverpool and an Honorary Professor of Stirling University, and Honorary Doctor of Arts at Abertay University in his native Scotland.
In 2005 he was named Broadcaster of the Year in the Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Awards, In 2012 he won numerous awards including a BAFTA and Royal Television Society award for Channel 4's coverage of the London Paralympics 2012, Paralympics including. He was also given a BAFTA Scotland Award for Special Achievement and Industry Excellence in television.
Stuart presents BBC Scotland's popular radio show 'Off the Ball' and lives in Glasgow and London. He recently left Channel 4 after a career spanning twenty years to focus full time on his first love - writing.
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