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== Career == |
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Alison Pember worked for [[Tower Records]] beginning in 1990, and as hip hop gained popularity she co-founded [[The Flavor]],[{{Cite web |last=Rose |first=Cynthia |date=14 July 1995 |title=Hip-Hop's Changing Flavor -- Seattle's 3-Year-Old Rap Mag Has An Audience That's Both Global And National] {{!}} The Seattle Times |url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19950714/2131255/hip-hops-changing-flavor----seattles-3-year-old-rap-mag-has-an-audience-thats-both-global-and-national |access-date=2024-11-08 |website=The Seattle Times}} a [[Seattle]]-based hip hop magazine that ran between 1992 and 1996.[{{Cite news |last=Rose |first=Cynthia |date=12 March 2000 |title=Absolutely Seattle |work=[[The Seattle Times]] |pages=M2}}] The magazine was notable for having a mostly female staff,[{{Cite web |last=MacAdams |first=Torii |date=2 June 2015 |title=A History of Hip Hop Zines |url=https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2015/06/hip-hop-zines-feature/ |access-date=2024-11-08 |website=daily.redbullmusicacademy.com |language=en}}] and had a peak circulation of 70,000.[{{Cite web |last=C |first=Gary |date=2021-05-11 |title=The Flavor: A Real Hip-Hop Magazine (Film) (2018) - Town Love: An Encyclopedia of Northwest Hip-Hop |url=https://townlove.cranecitymusic.com/the-flavor-a-real-hip-hop-magazine/ |access-date=2024-11-08 |website=Town Love |language=en-US}}] But after Pember left in 1996,[{{Cite news |last=Rose |first=Cynthia |date=29 January 1997 |title=STYLIN' GETS SERIOUS |work=[[The Seattle Times]] |pages=E1}}] |
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Alison Pember worked for [[Tower Records]] beginning in 1990, and as hip hop gained popularity she co-founded ''[[The Flavor]]'',[{{Cite web |last=Rose |first=Cynthia |date=14 July 1995 |title=Hip-Hop's Changing Flavor -- Seattle's 3-Year-Old Rap Mag Has An Audience That's Both Global And National |url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19950714/2131255/hip-hops-changing-flavor----seattles-3-year-old-rap-mag-has-an-audience-thats-both-global-and-national |access-date=2024-11-08 |website=The Seattle Times}}] a [[Seattle]]-based hip hop magazine that ran between 1992 and 1996.[{{Cite news |last=Rose |first=Cynthia |date=12 March 2000 |title=Absolutely Seattle |work=[[The Seattle Times]] |pages=M2}}] The magazine was notable for having a mostly female staff,[{{Cite web |last=MacAdams |first=Torii |date=2 June 2015 |title=A History of Hip Hop Zines |url=https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2015/06/hip-hop-zines-feature/ |access-date=2024-11-08 |website=daily.redbullmusicacademy.com |language=en}}] and had a peak circulation of 70,000.[{{Cite web |last=C |first=Gary |date=2021-05-11 |title=The Flavor: A Real Hip-Hop Magazine (Film) (2018) - Town Love: An Encyclopedia of Northwest Hip-Hop |url=https://townlove.cranecitymusic.com/the-flavor-a-real-hip-hop-magazine/ |access-date=2024-11-08 |website=Town Love |language=en-US}}] But after Pember left in 1996,[{{Cite news |last=Rose |first=Cynthia |date=29 January 1997 |title=STYLIN' GETS SERIOUS |work=[[The Seattle Times]] |pages=E1}}] |
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Pember moved to New York to work for [[London Recordings|London Records]] and manage the US operations of [[Mo' Wax|Mo' Wax Records]].[{{Cite news |last=MacDonald |first=Patrick |date=5 December 1996 |title=MUSIC NOTES |work=[[The Seattle Times]] |pages=I9}}][{{Cite journal |date=5 July 1996 |title=Acid Jazz Annual Report |journal=[[Gavin Report]] |issue=2112 |pages=36}}] She was promoted to Director of Marketing at London in 1997,[{{Cite journal |date=1997-05-17 |title=Executive Turntable. |url=https://books.google.fr/books?id=pA8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA12 |journal=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |pages=12 |via=Google Books}}] and later VP of Marketing.[{{Cite news |last=Farmer |first=Shuwana |last2=Speight |first2=Kimberly |date=18 May 2001 |title=People on the Move |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |pages=73}}] More recently she held the role of Director of Branded Media & Entertainment at [[Microsoft]].[{{Cite web |last=Wolfe |first=Nicole |date=2023-04-11 |title=Leveraging Entertainment to Harness the Power of Pop Culture |url=https://www.benlabs.com/resources/leveraging-entertainment-to-harness-the-power-of-pop-culture/ |access-date=2024-11-08 |website=BENlabs |language=en-US}}] |
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Pember moved to New York to work for [[London Recordings|London Records]] and manage the US operations of [[Mo' Wax|Mo' Wax Records]].[{{Cite news |last=MacDonald |first=Patrick |date=5 December 1996 |title=MUSIC NOTES |work=[[The Seattle Times]] |pages=I9}}][{{Cite journal |date=5 July 1996 |title=Acid Jazz Annual Report |journal=[[Gavin Report]] |issue=2112 |pages=36}}] She was promoted to Director of Marketing at London in 1997,[{{Cite journal |date=1997-05-17 |title=Executive Turntable. |url=https://books.google.fr/books?id=pA8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA12 |journal=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |pages=12 |via=Google Books}}] and later VP of Marketing.[{{Cite news |last=Farmer |first=Shuwana |last2=Speight |first2=Kimberly |date=18 May 2001 |title=People on the Move |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |pages=73}}] More recently she held the role of Director of Branded Media & Entertainment at [[Microsoft]].[{{Cite web |last=Wolfe |first=Nicole |date=2023-04-11 |title=Leveraging Entertainment to Harness the Power of Pop Culture |url=https://www.benlabs.com/resources/leveraging-entertainment-to-harness-the-power-of-pop-culture/ |access-date=2024-11-08 |website=BENlabs |language=en-US}}] |
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