The critics, the columns and the airwaves

Pseudonymous British reggae writer regarded as a leading chronicler of 1970s reggae for NME and Black Echoes, profiling artists including Culture's Joseph Hill, Dennis Brown, Jimmy Cliff and Keith Hudson; he died in 2018.

British monthly magazine published by IPC from December 1973 to April 1984, the first UK publication to treat reggae as a serious cultural phenomenon and among the first to cover African music; its launch was shaped by staff writer Carl Gayle.

The Los Angeles magazine (1982-2009, first as The Reggae Beat) that covered reggae and world music for the American audience across nearly three decades. Its interviews and scene reports are now a primary archive of how the music reached and read in the United States.

Reggae news magazine founded in Miami in 1983 by M. Peggy Quattro and Michael "Zappow" Williams, reaching distribution in 42 countries at its peak before ending its print edition in 1999 and continuing as ReggaeReport.com.

Ranking Miss P was the first presenter to hold a reggae show on BBC Radio 1, and one of the station's first Black presenters. She came to broadcasting through her brother Leroy "Lepke" Anderson, who persuaded her onto his west London pirate station DBC in 1979; on 31 March 1985 she began Culture Rock, a Sunday-night weekly and Radio 1's first programme dedicated solely to reggae, which ran until she left the station in 1990. She then presented Riddim and Blues on BBC Radio London. She and Lepke are younger siblings of Rita Marley, born Alpharita Constantia Anderson — so the pirate station, the national network's first reggae show and the Wailers' harmony line all run through one family.

German-language quarterly print magazine devoted to reggae and dancehall, offering artist interviews, album reviews and scene debates for a German and wider European readership; it ended its 25-year print run in 2026, continuing coverage online as riddim.world.

British music journalist and broadcaster who covered reggae and punk for NME, Sounds and Melody Maker from the 1970s, briefly worked in press for Bob Marley at Island Records, and later wrote "The Book of Exodus" on Marley's Exodus album; she now teaches punk and reggae at NYU.

Jamaican-British reggae writer whose journalism and industry contacts helped persuade UK publisher IPC to launch the magazine Black Music in 1973, one of the first British publications to treat reggae as a serious cultural subject; Gayle also recorded reggae under the name "Carl I".

British weekly music tabloid launched in January 1976 covering soul, funk, reggae and northern soul for Black British readers; it was renamed Echoes in 1992 and later published monthly, and its reggae writers included Penny Reel.

DBC, the west London pirate station founded by Lepke in the early 1980s and generally described as the first Black-owned radio station in Europe. It played reggae and the rest of Black British music at a time when legal radio would not, and it was where several broadcasters who later reached national radio learned the job.

David Rodigan (born 24 June 1951) is a British radio DJ and sound-system selector who has championed Jamaican reggae and dancehall for decades. He began reggae broadcasting on BBC Radio London in 1978, ran his "Roots Rockers" show on Capital Radio through the 1980s, and later broadcast on Kiss FM and BBC Radio 1Xtra, becoming renowned for sound-clash battles against systems such as Killamanjaro and Stone Love. He was appointed MBE in 2012 and awarded Jamaica's Order of Distinction in 2020 for promoting Jamaican music worldwide.

British radio disc jockey who presented BBC Radio London's Sunday reggae show, renamed Reggae Rockers, from 1977 to 1987, spotlighting British reggae talent, and who founded the British Reggae Industry Awards; he later ran independent stations Rockers FM and Rhythm 365, and died in 2018.