Rita M. Johnson

Rita M. Johnson is an American music and technology journalist, music supervisor and former Director of New Media and Strategic Marketing with Interscope Geffen A&M Records, a division of Universal Music Group. She launched her early career at Mute Records—home of Depeche Mode, worked with a division of Sony Music, and was U.S. Label Manager for the Belgian record label Crammed Discs.[1] As a journalist, she wrote an article on digital distribution and the entertainment industry which appeared in Wired[2] magazine in 1997, predating and anticipating digital downloading and peer-to-peer filesharing of music and film by Napster, Bit Torrent, and The Pirate Bay. The article has been sited in academic papers. She wrote for Wired for its first 6 years of publication, contributing music and technology stories and has contributed to L.A. Weekly, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Blickpunkt:film and Dazed & Confused magazine.

As a music supervisor, she has worked on films such as Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss and the Gentleman Bandit.

References

  1. ↑ Billboard
  2. ↑ Wired

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