Paul Chantler

Paul Chantler (born 12 October 1959) is a radio programming consultant based in the United Kingdom. He has been involved in the radio industry for more than 30 years as a journalist, presenter, producer and programmer.

He is currently senior partner at United Radio in London and works with clients including GMG Radio, Absolute Radio, Emap Radio, UTV Radio, Premier Christian Radio and the RadioCentre in the UK, Communicorp in Ireland and Europe, and Radio City in India. He has also worked for Macquarie in Australia and Emmis in the United States. Major assignments have included working for GMG Radio on their Smooth Radio brand as well as work on projects with radio groups in India.

He founded a startup company in 2011 called Radio Ideas Bank which helps radio sales people find contest and promotional ideas to sell to their clients. It has registered users and subscribers in more than 30 countries.

Chantler is co-author with Peter Stewart of the textbook Essential Radio Journalism published in June 2009 by A&C Black. The Foreword is written by Jon Snow of Channel 4 News who started his career in radio. The book started life in 1992 as Local Radio Journalism, co-authored by Sim Harris. Its successor Basic Radio Journalism, was published by Focal Press (a division of Elsevier) in 2002. It became a best-seller and was translated into Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Russian.

Chantler has co-written two new books about media law with Paul Hollins. The first, Hang The DJ? (A radio presenter's guide to the law) was published in 2011. The second called Twibel (A guide to libel and contempt for Tweeters, Facebookers and Bloggers) was published in 2012.

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