Alison Pember
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Alison Pember is a marketer, and former music journalist.
Career
[edit]Alison Pember worked for Tower Records beginning in 1990, and as hip hop gained popularity she co-founded The Flavor,[1] a Seattle-based hip hop magazine that ran between 1992 and 1996.[2] The magazine was notable for having a mostly female staff,[1][3] and had a peak circulation of 70,000.[4] But after Pember left in 1996,[3] the magazine closed.[5]
Pember moved to New York to work for London Records and manage the US operations of Mo' Wax Records.[6][7] She was promoted to Director of Marketing at London in 1997,[8] and later VP of Marketing.[9] More recently she held the role of Director of Branded Media & Entertainment at Microsoft.[10]
References
[edit]- 1 2 Rose, Cynthia (14 July 1995). "Hip-Hop's Changing Flavor -- Seattle's 3-Year-Old Rap Mag Has An Audience That's Both Global And National". The Seattle Times. Retrieved 2024-11-08.
- ↑ Rose, Cynthia (12 March 2000). "Absolutely Seattle". The Seattle Times. pp. M2.
- 1 2 MacAdams, Torii (2 June 2015). "A History of Hip Hop Zines". daily.redbullmusicacademy.com. Retrieved 2024-11-08.
- ↑ C, Gary (2021-05-11). "The Flavor: A Real Hip-Hop Magazine (Film) (2018) - Town Love: An Encyclopedia of Northwest Hip-Hop". Town Love. Retrieved 2024-11-08.
- ↑ Rose, Cynthia (29 January 1997). "STYLIN' GETS SERIOUS". The Seattle Times. pp. E1.
- ↑ MacDonald, Patrick (5 December 1996). "MUSIC NOTES". The Seattle Times. pp. I9.
- ↑ "Acid Jazz Annual Report". Gavin Report (2112): 36. 5 July 1996.
- ↑ "Executive Turntable". Billboard: 12. 1997-05-17 – via Google Books.
- ↑ Farmer, Shuwana; Speight, Kimberly (18 May 2001). "People on the Move". The Hollywood Reporter. p. 73.
- ↑ Wolfe, Nicole (2023-04-11). "Leveraging Entertainment to Harness the Power of Pop Culture". BENlabs. Retrieved 2024-11-08.
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