CHRIS COOKE esPResso Publisher
Chris has been a publisher, editor and journalist for over fifteen years. He runs UnLimited Media, and publishes music business news service CMU and Edinburgh Festival reviews publication ThreeWeeks. He also provides creative, training and consulting services to the media, music and communication sectors.

Through his various projects he is considered a leading expert on the music and media industries, and regularly speaks and lectures on these sectors, at universities, conferences and for other media, most notably the BBC. He also programmes the UK’s biggest music business convention, The Great Escape.

Through an alliance with his creative services agency UnLimited Creative, Chris was involved in the launch of Unicorn Jobs in 2007, and helped develop the company’s brand, website and its PR news service esPResso. He continues to manage both the Unicorn Jobs and esPResso sites, acts as publisher and associate editor of the esPResso bulletin, and provides other design and marketing services to the company.

Chris was also involved in launching the award winning internship programme operated by the Taylor Bennett Foundation, the programme hosted by Unicorn Jobs which encourages and enables black, Asian and minority ethnic graduates to pursue a career in PR. He continues to provide core seminars as part of this programme.

Chris has an MA in English Language from Edinburgh University, and an LLB Law degree from London Metropolitan University.