Robert Briel  new_releases

Robert Briel has been an international media journalist for many years, contributing to both Dutch and international trade publications. He is the co-founder of Broadband TV News.

Robert was for many years editor-in-chief and creative director of Veronica TV Magazine, at the time Holland's biggest selling weekly. Before that, he was involved with the launch of many magazines including the music papers Oor and Hitkrant, the record industry trade weekly Muziek + Beeld and the first Dutch Satellite TV Guide.

At Veronica he was also responsible for the launch of the Veronica website in 1994. From December 1999 until January 2002 Robert was head of international press & PR at the UPC media group and responsible for the international and external contacts for the various thematic channels from UPC across Europe.

As a senior consultant at RGB Media he worked for Canal+, Bookmark, Sky Radio, CineNova the movie channel, the Dutch DVB-T broadcaster Digitenne, BBC Worldwide, SES-Astra, Philips Consumer Electronics, the NOS communications department and other blue chip media companies.

Robert is also the author of a number of books on music, travel and the media.

Specialties: Media consultancy, research, pr activities, editorial production of newsletters, magazines, both in print and online