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Simon Das is Senior Lecturer in Magazine Publishing at the University for the Creative Arts (UCA). He was previously managing editor of UK black music monthly Touch magazine, a supplement project editor for Time Out and a freelance journalist for Arena and i-D in London, el País newspaper in Madrid and The Fader in New York.

David Stam is Associate Lecturer in Magazine Publishing at the University of the Arts London. He has been Managing Director within Reed Business Information and a Board Director of IPC Media. He has worked as a consultant for TSL Education, The Economist and The Spectator. In 2014, he co-edited Inside Magazine Publishing with Andrew Scott.

Andrew Blake is Associate Lecturer in Magazine Publishing at the University of the Arts London, having taught at the Universities of East London, Winchester and Southampton. He has written about many aspects of contemporary culture.