Cornerstone Donors: Beverly Keel
Beverly Keel
Senior Vice President
Artist and Media Relations
Universal Music Group
Beverly Keel is senior vice president of artist and media relations for Universal
Music Group Nashville. She was previously a recording industry professor at MTSU,
where she also served as director of the Seigenthaler Chair of Excellence in First
Amendment Studies.
Before joining UMG Nashville, she was also a nationally recognized music journalist
who has covered Nashville news for more than 15 years. She served as a Nashville correspondent for
People magazine for a decade and was also entertainment editor of American Profile
and celebrity columnist at the Tennessean. She has written for such magazines as InStyle,
New York, USA Today and Entertainment Weekly. A former music industry columnist for
the Nashville Scene and Nashville Banner newspapers, her journalism has received awards
from the Associated Press and the Association of American Newsweeklies. She received
the Charlie Lamb Award for Excellence in Country Music Journalism.
She serves on the board of the Tennessee Performing Arts Center, serves on the Nashville
Mayor's Music Council and is the past president of the International Association for
the Study of Popular Music-US Branch. She has served on the boards of Leadership Music
and the Recording Academy.
Keel has been a commentator on country music personalities and events for such media
outlets as National Public Radio, Bravo, VH-1, CBS, ABC, the Associated Press, the
Washington Post and CMT.
A Nashville native, she earned her bachelor's degree from Middle Tennessee State
University and her master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of
Journalism and Strategic Media. She is married to Ronnie Steine and is step-mother
to David Steine, 20.
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New Media Center Open at MTSU
Students, faculty, guests and reporters converged on a media event April 12 in one of the most appropriate places on MTSU's Campus: the new Center for Innovation in Media
MTSU Center for Innovation in Media Celebrates Formal Opening
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