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Type of site | Journalism |
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| Available in | English |
| Founded | September 2009 |
| URL | www |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Yes |
The Arts Desk (theartsdesk.com) is a British arts journalism website containing reviews, interviews, news, and other content related to music, theatre, television, films, and other art forms written by journalists from a variety of traditional and web-based publications. [1] [2]
It launched in September 2009 as a shareholder collective. [3] [4] In its launching year, it drew around 2000 daily visitors. [4] From 2010 to 2013, its honorary chairman was John Tusa. [5] [6] Its contributing editors are made up by professional critics and veteran journalists [7] who have worked for publications such as The Times , The Guardian , The Telegraph . They are freelance reviewers of art, music, dance and theatre, who post reviews online. [6] In 2019, it signed a deal with JPI Media that would allow I news to feature arts reviews and other articles written by the website's editors. [8]
Contributors to the website include Aleks Sierz and Adam Sweeting.
Upon its launch, The Telegraph deemed it as one of the best culture websites on the internet. [3] In 2012, it won an Online Media Award as the best specialist journalism site, jointly with the website for The Economist . [9] Prospect magazine described it as "Britain’s first professional arts critics website". [10]
Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of films, television shows, music albums, video games, and formerly books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged. Metacritic was created by Jason Dietz, Marc Doyle, and Julie Doyle Roberts in 1999, and was acquired by Fandom, Inc. in 2022.
Pitchfork is an American online music publication founded in 1996 by Ryan Schreiber in Minneapolis. It originally covered alternative and independent music, and expanded to cover genres including pop, hip hop, jazz and metal. Pitchfork is one of the most influential music publications to have emerged in the internet age.
Exeposé is the official student-run newspaper of the University of Exeter. It has a fortnightly print circulation of 1,000. Exeposé is free and published every fortnight during term time. Its sections include news, features, lifestyle, science, satire, sport, screen, music, arts and lit, tech, comment and international.
Andy Dehnart is an American journalist and television critic. He may be best known as reality television's "longest-standing critic" for his online journalism, as he is the creator of the genre's first tracking website, realityblurred.com. He is a member of the Television Critics Association.
Andy Carvin is an American blogger and a former senior product manager for online communities at National Public Radio (NPR). Carvin was the founding editor and former coordinator of the Digital Divide Network. He is a field correspondent for the vlog Rocketboom.
Sir John Tusa is a British arts administrator, and radio and television journalist. He is co-chairman of the European Union Youth Orchestra from 2014. chairman, British Architecture Trust Board, RIBA, from 2014. From 1980 to 1986, he was a main presenter of BBC 2's Newsnight programme. From 1986 to 1993, he was managing director of the BBC World Service. From 1995 to 2007, he was managing director of the City of London's Barbican Arts Centre.
The Indiana Daily Student (IDS) is an independent, student-run newspaper published for the community of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, since 1867. The IDS is free and distributed throughout the campus and city.
Elizabeth Kolbert is an American journalist, author, and visiting fellow at Williams College.
The African-American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) is the world's largest group of Black film critics that gives various annual awards for excellence in film and television. It was founded in 2003 in New York City. In 2023 Variety stated that since it started, "the organization’s purpose was clear: to amplify Black voices in film criticism and arts entertainment journalism from across the African Diaspora."
Alex Timbers is an American writer and director best known for his work on stage and television. He has received numerous accolades including two Tony Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a Drama Desk Award, as well as nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Grammy Award. Timbers received the Drama League Founder's Award for Excellence in Directing and the Jerome Robbins Award for Directing.
The National is a UAE state-owned English-language daily newspaper published in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Charlotte Higgins, is a British writer and journalist.
Jonathan Stuart Bailey is an English actor known for his comedic, dramatic, and musical roles on stage and screen. He is the recipient of a Laurence Olivier Award, a Critics' Choice Television Award, as well as a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
Neon Tommy was the online news publication sponsored by the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism at the University of Southern California. It was active from 2009 to 2015.
Mayank Shekhar is an Indian film critic, journalist and author. He has been a film critic and a national cultural editor with Hindustan Times. He previously worked under Mumbai Mirror and MiD DAY. He also used to write a blog, Fad For Thought, at the Hindustan Times website. Currently, his reviews appear on his website theW14.com and also at the Dainik Bhaskar in different languages. He is the editorial head of Mid-Day entertainment and the host of the online talk show Sit with Hitlist. He is also an advisory member for the Central Board of Film Certification.
Bill Marx is a theater critic based in Boston, Massachusetts. Marx served as theater and arts critic for WBUR from 1982 to 2006 and as the host of a podcast dedicated to books in translation for WGBH (FM) and Public Radio International's The World from 2007 to 2011.
Adam Sweeting is a British rock critic and writer. Graeme Thomson, writing for The Guardian, deemed him as an "influential journalist" of the 1970s. He currently writes film and television reviews for The Arts Desk.
Kansas Smitty's House Band is a London-based group that specialises in original jazz music. The band run their own bar and HQ on Broadway Market in the London Borough of Hackney.
The Gloaming is the debut studio album by the contemporary Irish/American music group The Gloaming. It was released on January 20, 2014 on Real World Records, and on Brassland Records in America, Justin Time Records in Canada, and Planet Records in Australia.
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