Emmanuel Legrand
Emmanuel Legrand is a freelance journalist covering the global entertainment and broadcasting businesses and a media consultant.
Based in London, he is the editor of Impact, a new quarterly magazine for the music publishing community. He was until March 2006 global editor of US trade publication Billboard and London bureau chief for the Billboard Information Group.
From January 1997 to July 2003 he was editor in chief of Billboard’s sister publication Music & Media, the leading weekly pan-European trade magazine covering the music, radio and new media industries.
Prior to joining the London-based publication, he was the Paris-based French correspondent for several international trade publications (Music & Media, Billboard, Broadcast, TV World, among others). In 1996 he decided to leave Paris and move to London because of the weather.
From 1985 to 1987, he worked for French music trade publication Show Magazine.
He holds a master degree in political science from the university of Paris-V Sorbonne.
