Beverly Keel
Professor & Director of the John Seigenthaler Chair of Excellence

Music Publicity
Artist Management
Entertainment Journalism

Office: Comm
Phone: 615.898.5150
Email: bkeel@mtsu.edu

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Beverly Keel is a professor in MTSU's Department of Recording Industry and a freelance journalist. She is the Nashville correspondent for People magazine and a former music columnist at the Nashville Scene. Her byline has appeared in such publications as USA Today, The Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, New York magazine , Court TV.com and RollingStone.com. She has written for New Country, Country Music Magazine and Country Weekly. A 2001 participant in Leadership Music, her work has won awards from the Associated Press and the Association of American Newsweeklies. She received her B.S. from MTSU and her M.S. from the Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. She is currently on the Board of Governors of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS).