Resident Advisor appointments

03 April 2024 - Press release

RESIDENT ADVISOR ANNOUNCES NEW EDITOR GABRIEL SZATAN
DEPUTY EDITOR RACHEL GRACE ALMEIDA

INFLUENTIAL ELECTRONIC MUSIC PUBLICATION UNVEILS FURTHER INTERNAL PROMOTIONS & EDITORIAL RESTRUCTURING

COMPANY AWARDED PRESTIGIOUS B CORP STATUS



Resident Advisor — the world’s leading electronic music publication — marks a new era with the double-swoop announcement of Gabriel Szatan as Editor and Rachel Grace Almeida as Deputy Editor.

RA simultaneously unveils internal promotions to unlock further growth for the news and editorial arm: Carlos Hawthorn (London) moves up to Managing Editor after a decade's service. Nyshka Chandran (NYC) also becomes the company's first Futures Editor, following her successful spearheading of the RA Pro newsletter, with tech and business reporting that has broken vital new ground for RA's coverage.

Gabriel Szatan arrives to lead Resident Advisor's global editorial team with over a decade's work as a prominent electronic music specialist and advocate. Formerly Senior Curator, Editor and host at Boiler Room during the broadcaster's exponential growth phase, Szatan has been a regular contributor on club and pop culture for outlets such as Pitchfork, the Guardian, RBMA, Apple Music, Billboard and DJ Mag, as well as individually authored projects. He has lived and worked in NYC since 2022 as streaming service TIDAL's Head of Dance & Electronic. Szatan returns to RA's London HQ after a prior run on staff as a contributing writer, for which his reporting was co-recipient of Complex's 'Music Journalism of the Year' in 2020.

Venezuelan writer and curator Rachel Grace Almeida joins from influential music and culture publication Crack Magazine. Almeida is Crack's outgoing Editor, having also served as Deputy Editor across a six-year period working from the independent publication's Berlin office. She has written for outlets such as i-D, DAZED, Bandcamp, Time Out and Business of Fashion, with special areas of interest in music, politics, art and Latin diaspora issues. Almeida also holds a long-running monthly residency on the tastemaking London station NTS Radio, where she explores the “expansive sounds of Latin America”.