Paul McDonald is Professor of Media Industries at King's College London. He recently co-edited Digital Media Distribution: Portals, Platforms, Pipelines (2021 with Courtney Brannon Donoghue and Timothy Havens). Alongside authoring or editing major works in the field, he's contributed to advancing critical studies of media industries by launching the Media Industries conferences, being a founding member of the Editorial Collective for the journal Media Industries, co-editing (with Michael Curtin) the International Screen Industries book series from the British Film Institute, and establishing specialized media industries networks within the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) and the European Network of Cinema and Media Studies (NECS). Before entering academia, he worked in various areas of the media industries, with periods spent as an actor, media analyst, and in aspects of animated film production, art book publishing, film exhibition, and studio photography.