Rita M. Johnson

Rita M. Johnson is an American journalist, music supervisor and former Director of New Media and Strategic Marketing with Interscope Geffen A&M Records, a division of Universal Music Group. As a journalist, in 1997, she wrote first article on digital distribution and the entertainment industry which appeared in Wired magazine in 1997, predating and anticipating digital downloading and peer-to-peer filesharing of music and film by Napster, Bit Torrent, and The Pirate Bay. The articles been sited in academic papers. She wrote for Wired from 1994 - 2000.

As a music supervisor, she has worked on films such as Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss, starring Sean Hayes who played Jack McFarland in the television sitcom Will & Grace, and Gentleman B (the Gentleman Bandit), starring Peter Green from The Mask and Pulp Fiction and Ryan O'Neal from Love Story.

External links

• Titans Bracing for Uprising by Rita M Johnson, at Wired magazine
• Rita M Johnson biography at Wired magazine
• The Worst Music Ever, City Paper