Melissa Vincent is a music journalist and doctoral candidate in Data, Networks, and Society in the Media and Communications department at the London School of Economics. She is a frequent on-air music correspondent for CBC’s The National, a member of the Toronto Music Advisory Committee, and the former Polaris Music Prize jury foreperson. She was a researcher on the Peabody Award–winning documentary Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story and was nominated for a Digital Publishing Award for Best Science and Technology Storytelling for her essay, Ethical AI Has Not Solved Tech’s Problem with Racism. She has led editorial direction and strategy for projects commissioned by Universal Music Canada, Netflix, YouTube Originals, and Banger Films. She has moderated and spoken on over 100 panels, conferences, and festivals worldwide, including MUTEK (CAN), Eurosonic (NL), Linecheck (IT), and Elevate (CAN). Her work has appeared in Pitchfork, Elle Canada, The Globe and Mail, Billboard, NPR Music, and The Fader, among others. She was an inaugural research fellow at the Collaboratory for Black Poiesis at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information and received the 2024 Hilda Wilson Fellowship in Technology, Information, and Culture.
The Modern Fan Economy – VIP, Pop-Ups & Profit
The fan relationship has evolved, and with it, the entire business of live music. This panel brings together experiential entrepreneurs Noreen Hamid, Patrice Whiffen + special guests to explore how […]