David Bevan Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, CA, US

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Responsible for overseeing all customer-facing copy on iTunes and Apple Music, for a global audience of millions—from exclusive artist-driven promotions to original artist bios to Editors’ Notes.
• Spearheaded critical improvement to team’s editorial process and workflow through use of new editorial tools, resulting in improved copy and added transparency
• Broadened team’s creative footprint by partnering with Beats 1 Radio to help write and develop new programming
• Played an integral role in shaping editorial approach for new original content brands like On the Record and Up Next
• Developed names for new (and newly relaunched) flagship playlist brands
• Managed international stable of writers

• Creative lead for newly formed team dedicated to global content strategy and planning, with a focus on developing, storytelling, and producing editorial-driven stories both on-platform and off-.
• Providing a bridge between copywriters, playlist editors, and marketing, to develop rich and unique context for new releases and catalog
• Working cross-functionally with design, PR, marketing, localization. and producers to project manage global campaigns
• Recent work includes: International’s Women’s Day, Taylor Swift’s ‘Lover’

Greater Los Angeles Area

Written criticism and features for The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Vulture, Grantland, SPIN, Pitchfork, The Village Voice, California Sunday, The FADER, FRANCHISE, and others.

Greater New York City Area

• As a long-standing contributor to the website in both full-time and freelance capacities, managed the website’s daily mp3 coverage while writing and editing album reviews, track reviews, news, and features.
• Coordinated and covered multiple daily track premieres
• Combined with Pitchfork TV crew to schedule video premieres

Greater New York City Area

• Brought in as a part of a small team meant to relaunch both the website and magazine as a bimonthly large format. Hired as an associate editor with a focus on profiles and reported features.
• Managed large stable of writers, as well as intern pool
• Worked closely with artists, labels, and PR to produce daily stories, video
• Became unlikely K-Pop expert, with numerous media appearances

Greater New York City Area

Wrote features for the magazine and generated daily content for the website, while running and editing rock-oriented rock vertical, The Tripwire.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.) With Honors In History, Journalism, German, European History

Activities and Societies: Senior Arts Editor at Washington Square News, NYU's Student Daily Newspaper

German History

Spent a year studying History and German, in joint exchange between Duke University and Freie Universität Berlin