Jenna Campbell
Jenna Campbell is What’s On editor at the Manchester Evening News, covering entertainment, culture, food and drink, travel and lifestyle across Greater Manchester. Her coverage combines practical guidance with vivid, scene-setting reporting, focusing on how people move through and experience major events, venues and city moments. She balances large-scale weekends with close-up features, treating logistics, atmosphere and audience experience as part of the same story.
Major events and crowd guidance across Greater Manchester
A central strand of Campbell’s work is major event coverage that explains how large audiences can navigate the city. In a piece of urgent travel advice issued ahead of a huge weekend expected to bring around 250,000 people into Greater Manchester, she framed entertainment not just in terms of what is happening, but how people get there and home again safely and on time. That approach turns listings into service journalism, giving readers clear context about scale, timing and movement around the city during busy periods.
Her remit routinely extends into high-profile cultural occasions, where she reports from inside the action. Coverage described her securing front-row access to both the main ceremony and after-parties at a major music awards night, drawing on that proximity to capture the flow of the evening from red carpet to late-night celebrations.
She is also dispatched to international festivals, travelling to the Venice Film Festival as part of the newsroom’s reporting on a new Oasis documentary, blending travel detail with cultural coverage around a globally anticipated premiere.
Oasis, live music and ticketing detail
Live music is a recurring focus, with Campbell often writing at the intersection of fandom, access and practical information.
In her Oasis at Knebworth 2027 coverage, she provides a full list of dates, prices and routes into the ticketing system, translating a complex, staggered on-sale process into clear steps for readers who need to understand registration, codes and limited purchase windows. Pricing tiers, package options and venue dates are laid out in direct language, allowing fans to compare choices and plan attendance without needing to decode marketing copy.
Her reporting around Oasis extends beyond tickets into narrative pieces that follow the band’s legacy and ongoing story. She has travelled to Venice in pursuit of the Gallagher brothers and the documentary built around their history, situating the film within both Manchester’s music mythology and the international festival circuit.
This combination of access information and contextual storytelling makes her music coverage useful to readers planning their next gig while still engaging those interested in the cultural weight of the artists involved.
Food, drink and city experiences
Campbell specialises in food and drink writing alongside her entertainment beat, using restaurant visits and food events as a lens on the wider city. She contributes to coverage that has her and colleagues eating their way through dozens of meals for a “Foodie Friday” assignment, turning that intensive tasting into recommendations and impressions that help readers decide where to spend their time and money. In another reported piece, she is described spending time inside a Thai café where the atmosphere and family behind the business are as important to her story as the menu itself, highlighting how service, story and setting shape the dining experience.
Her wider work reflects an interest in independent venues and creative projects, from new spaces with the same name but very different vibe to established food districts undergoing change. She brings the same straightforward tone to these pieces as to large events, focusing on what a place feels like, who runs it and what visitors can expect rather than leaning on hype or abstraction. Across these assignments, food and drink are treated as part of the city’s cultural life, tied to identity, routine and discovery rather than just consumption.
Travel, lifestyle and reported features
Beyond listings and venue guides, Campbell writes lifestyle and reported features that dig into how people live, travel and manage their health.
Her professional profile emphasises specialisms in travel, design and lifestyle writing, and newsroom coverage has highlighted her reporting on migraines, where she interviewed multiple people about access to treatment and the impact of chronic pain on daily life. In that work, she combines personal experience with testimonies from others, using clear, precise language to surface barriers and routines rather than opinion-led commentary.
Travel pieces and festival assignments sit alongside this lifestyle reporting, often anchoring broader narratives in the practicalities of moving between places. Whether boarding a Vaporetto to attend the Venice Film Festival or exploring new spaces closer to home, she writes in a way that shows the journey as part of the story, not just the backdrop. Outside the Manchester Evening News, she works as a journalist and editor on independent projects that champion women and creative work, bringing that focus on people and place back into her entertainment beat.
The result is a body of work that treats events, venues and everyday routines as interconnected, giving readers both information and a grounded sense of how it feels to be there.
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Abbie Bray
Abbie Bray reports on how television affects the people on screen and the viewers at home. She is acting head of Screen Time, working across national and regional titles on dramas, soaps, factual entertainment and live broadcasts. Her focus includes Death in Paradise, Beyond Paradise, Vera and Midsomer Murders, as well as Gardeners’ World, Our Yorkshire Farm, Countryfile, Garden Rescue and A Place in the Sun. She also covers presenters, long-running series, sports broadcasts, viewer complaints and Ofcom scrutiny. Before Screen Time, she was a TV reporter for Metro and the Daily Express, then held weekend TV editor, assistant TV editor and deputy showbiz editor roles. Her reporting links TV formats to grief, career changes, casting, audience reaction and the personal stakes behind live coverage.
Adam Bloodworth
Adam Bloodworth covers how culture, nightlife and luxury spaces shape modern entertainment and everyday life. He is a Features Journalist and Deputy Life&Style Editor at City A.M., where he has written and commissioned culture and lifestyle features since 2022. He is also Deputy Editor of City A.M. The Magazine. His beat includes film, TV, music, theatre, things to do, restaurants, hotels, members’ clubs, fashion and LGBTQ storytelling. He has written for The Telegraph, The Independent, VICE, Metro and HuffPost UK. He reviews gigs, theatre and restaurants, profiles venues and reports on live-music infrastructure. His work often combines criticism with first-person experience, judging places and performances by their atmosphere, stories and audience experience. He also interviews public figures and appears as an on-air commentator.
Adam England
Adam England stands out for linking celebrity news to wider trends in music, sport, health and everyday life. He is a writer-reporter on the news team at People, where he covers entertainment, culture and lifestyle through timely stories and evergreen explainers. His work has appeared in publications including The Guardian, The Independent, Vice, Dazed, Healthline and Verywell Mind. He writes about music, screen entertainment, celebrity careers, fan communities, sport, cultural history, mental health, travel, pets, relationships and social affairs. His explainers include the 2023 NFL Draft and Bruce Lee’s death. He also reports on sensitive celebrity health stories, such as Lionel Richie cutting a concert short after feeling dizzy. His reporting is clear, factual and service-driven. He strips back jargon and mythology, uses lived experience and expert input where relevant, and avoids sensationalism.
Adam White
Adam White is features editor across culture and lifestyle at The Independent. He writes and commissions long-form features, essays and interviews on film, television, music and entertainment. His work examines how fame, fandom and taste shape contemporary culture, from streaming thrillers and celebrity disclosure to festivals, live music and creative careers. His writing has appeared in Dazed, Huck, i-D, Playboy, The Telegraph, The i, Little White Lies, The Quietus and Nylon. He uses a strong, voice-led style that combines reporting, observation and personal immersion. His streaming coverage treats television as something experienced as much as watched. His celebrity essays connect star narratives to wider questions about privacy and public image. His festival writing focuses on audiences and live events as cultural rituals. His interviews with film-makers and authors rely on rapport, extended stories and reflection.