Lily Ford
Lily Ford covers the creative side of contemporary entertainment, with a particular focus on how artists, directors and musicians shape the stories and sounds of modern culture. Her reporting at The Hollywood Reporter centres on conversations with creative figures and close tracking of new projects, with music often sitting alongside film and television in the stories she follows.
Creative projects and artist-focused coverage
Ford’s work consistently foregrounds the people behind new releases, rather than treating projects as isolated announcements. In her coverage of director Garth Jennings’ pulp movie debuting on Mubi in the fall, she focuses on the film as an expression of his distinctive style and career, situating the project within a broader creative trajectory rather than only its release logistics. Across recent work, she uses interviews and exclusive angles to draw out how writers, directors, performers and musicians develop their material, making the creative process and personality a core part of the news.
This emphasis on the human and artistic dimension distinguishes her coverage from more transactional reporting on the entertainment beat.
News, features and awards coverage for The Hollywood Reporter
At The Hollywood Reporter, Ford works as a U.K. reporter, covering breaking news, features, award shows and premieres for the masthead. Her remit includes a mix of fast-turnaround news pieces on developments across entertainment and more structured feature writing built around interviews and on-the-ground reporting. She contributes to awards and premiere coverage, following how new work is received in early screenings and at industry events.
Within that broad brief, music-related stories sit alongside film and television, reflecting the interconnected nature of the U.K. entertainment scene she covers.
Cross-medium storytelling
Although she is assigned to the music beat for this project, Ford’s published work shows that she often covers artists whose careers move between formats, including film, television and audio. In pieces built around interviews with performers and creatives, she traces how their work evolves across different media, highlighting the crossover between screen projects and music.
This cross-medium perspective allows her to situate music stories within a wider narrative about an artist’s body of work, industry context and creative partnerships, rather than isolating them as standalone items.
International entertainment reporting
Ford’s role at The Hollywood Reporter involves filing from the U.K. on projects and people with international profiles, giving her coverage a cross-border dimension.
She reports on premieres, awards and breaking news that resonate beyond any single market, including stories that travel between European, American and global audiences. In practice, this means that her music-related coverage often intersects with international distribution platforms, global fanbases and collaborations that span territories, adding an industry-context layer to stories about individual artists or releases.
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Abigail Kellett
Abigail Kellett is a news reporter at the Halifax Courier who stands out for visually led coverage that shows how culture, nightlife and local life play out on the ground. She documents gigs, festivals and major live shows at venues such as The Piece Hall through curated photo sets that capture atmosphere, crowd and setting as much as performers, and she uses extensive image galleries to tap reader nostalgia for nights out in Halifax town centre. Her beat spans arts, entertainment, going out, heritage, books and literary events, along with community life, people stories, local challenges, milestones, transport, regeneration, lifestyle and food. She reports through photographs, checklist-style features, reader-driven lists and roundups of most-read stories, turning announcements, programmes, author events, festivals, shop lists and everyday characters into stories about place, shared memory and how people spend their time.
Adam Lyon
Adam Lyon is a digital audience and content editor whose news beat sits at the intersection of Ayrshire’s cultural life, business environment and public affairs. He works for the Ayr Advertiser and as Digital Audience & Content Editor for Newsquest in the west of Scotland across multiple weekly titles. He covers Ayrshire news with a strong thread of music and local culture alongside business, courts and public affairs. He reports on music when it has a clear community or national hook, treating songs as news events rather than reviews. His business work explains how local firms and retail policy shape town centres. His court coverage uses round-ups of sheriff court cases to show patterns and outcomes. He also fronts video previews and is active in a football supporters trust community.
Adam Maidment
Adam Maidment is a senior What’s On and LGBTQ+ reporter whose work links big-name gigs, new venues and cultural flashpoints to everyday fan culture and inclusion. He covers music, nightlife and the wider cultural scene for the Manchester Evening News, focusing on how concerts, openings and immersive events land with real people and communities. His beat spans live music, arenas and stadiums, new restaurant and bar openings, food reviews, exhibitions, street art and nightlife infrastructure, with a particular focus on LGBTQ+ audiences and neighbourhoods. He reports on venue ambitions and problems, cultural institutions and equality issues, and franchise-led experiences, using straightforward, on-the-ground reporting and clear description. Drawing on a background in community reporting, he looks for underrepresented perspectives and uses social media, analytics and local sourcing to find stories where culture, identity and place meet.
Alex Rigotti
Alex Rigotti is a freelance music and culture editor and journalist who joins fast-turnaround music news with detailed reporting on artists, fandom and politics. They report breaking stories and live music updates for NME and Paste Magazine, covering pop, rock, club music, underground scenes and cultural debates around art and identity. Their live-music beat includes setlists, tours, festival appearances, cancellations, ticketing, venues and onstage collaborations. They previously served as a contributing editor for NME’s Radar section, supporting coverage of emerging artists and new scenes. Rigotti also writes features on rap lyrics and criminalisation, Eurovision and politics, queer feminist bodybuilding, astrotherapy and contemporary art. Their reporting is direct and specific, using clear quotes, concrete details and artists’ own words to explain what happened and how music fits into wider cultural and industry trends.