Veteran reporter Dave Brooks has joined Billboard as senior correspondent and will cover the touring and live entertainment beat. He will also book and program the magazine’s annual Touring Conferences & Awards. Brooks is no stranger to covering that segment of the music industry: In 2014 he founded Amplify, a niche news source for event and live entertainment professionals, where remains as executive editor; prior to that he was the managing editor of Venues Today for eight years. Follow Billboard on Twitter.

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