How this Nashville-raised music exec champions Black artists across genres
Shannon Sanders, an African-American South Nashville native and award-winning BMI executive director of creative, reflects on ...
Executive Turntable: BMI Lifer Eyes Retirement, Plus 10K Veterans Launch a Remote-Only Label
This week's Executive Turntable features BMI, UMPG, Concord, prairy, ShopKeeper Management, MLC, NAMM, Dept. of Connection and more industry job news.
Acclaimed Nashville music publishing executive Ben Vaughn, 49, has died
Noted music executive Ben Vaughn, 49, has died. The president and CEO of Warner Chappell Music Nashville backed hits such as ...
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Ben Vaughn, President-CEO of Warner Chappell Nashville Publishing, Dies at 49
Warner Chappell Publishing was a frequent winner at the annual BMI, ASCAP and SESAC Awards in Nashville, with the subsidiary ...
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BMI veteran Alison Smith to retire after 40-year career at the company
Smith began working at BMI in 1985 on a six-week temporary assignment in the company’s Nashville office. She went on to spend her entire career with BMI, working in multiple departments and taking on ...
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Nashville school shooting: 17-year-old fatally shoots female student before taking his own life
A Nashville high school shooting left one female student dead and another wounded. The 17-year-old shooter, also a student, killed himself after the shooting. The incident has sparked renewed calls ...
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Nashville school shooting suspect allegedly praised mass shooters, extremist views
An alleged portrait is beginning to emerge of the 17-year-old boy who opened fire at his Nashville high school on Wednesday, killing one student and wounding a second student, according to police.
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Nashville high school shooter posted online writings and partially livestreamed attack, social media posts show
Law enforcement officials seeking a motive for a shooting at Nashville’s Antioch High School on Wednesday morning are examining alarming social media posts and writings tied to a teenager police ...
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BMI is wrong way to measure obesity, researchers say — here’s what they recommend instead
Body mass index (BMI) has been the international standard for measuring obesity since the 1980s, according to many sources, though some experts have questioned its validity. A person’s BMI is ...
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New obesity benchmark adds body fat, organ health to BMI
The body mass index (BMI), a weight-to-height ratio, has long been criticised as too simplistic, in part because it cannot distinguish between fat and muscle mass. Currently, anyone with a BMI of ...
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New definition for obesity? What a new Lancet commission has proposed to replace BMI
The Lancet medical journal’s Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission last week proposed a new definition and method for diagnosing obesity, beyond simply looking at a person’s Body Mass Index (BMI), the ...
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Experts Propose a New Definition of Obesity—and It Goes Beyond BMI
A new report argues that body mass index or BMI is not the most accurate way to define obesity. BMI is only a measure of a person’s weight and height and does not account for muscle mass.