Paul McDonald is Professor of Media Industries at King’s College London. His most recent publications include editing The Routledge Companion to Media Industries (2022) and co-editing Digital Media Distribution: Portals, Platforms, Pipelines (2021). Since 2001, he’s co-edited the International Screen Industries book series from the British Film Institute. Working with colleagues at King’s, in 2018 he coordinated the conference Media Industry Studies: Current Debates and Future Directions. Paul is a founding member of the Editorial Collective for the journal Media Industries. He is the founder and former co-chair of the Media Industries Scholarly Interest Group in the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, and founder and former co-ordinator for the Screen Industries Work Group in the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies.

Andrew Spicer is Professor of Cultural Production at the University of the West of England Bristol. He has published extensively about media production, media industries and place, including Building Successful and Sustainable Film and Television Businesses: A Cross-National Perspective (2017) and ‘A Regional Company? RED Production and the Cultural Politics of Place’, Journal of British Cinema and Television (2019), and is the co-author of Go West! Bristol’s Film and Television Industries (2017; rev. 2022). He co-leads a European Research Network investigating regional production and is co-editing a collection The Politics of Place: Space and Locality in the European Screen Industries for the Routledge Studies in European Communication and Education Series (forthcoming 2024). His most recent book is Sean Connery: Acting, Stardom and National Identity (Manchester University Press, 2022). Andrew is currently developing a broader project exploring the politics of place-making through the role played by the UK’s public service broadcasters and completing a monograph on Bristol as the ‘Green Hollywood’: the global centre for Natural History Filmmaking.