As a senior writer at Billboard, Kristin covers the intersection of music business and technology. In 2023, Kristin was named a finalist for the National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Award for her investigation of a $23 million YouTube royalty fraud case. In 2024, she was a finalist for the Los Angeles Press Club Southern California Journalism Awards for her feature on hip-hop writer-producer Mike Dean. When she’s not writing about about the business side of things, Kristin also writes cover stories and profiles for Billboard. This includes covers about Charli XCX’s brat summer, Mustard’s role in Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” Laufey’s domination of jazz/pop and Ghostwriter’s creation of the AI-generated song “Heart on My Sleeve” featuring “Fake Drake." She can be found on Instagram, X (formerly Twitter), Bluesky, LinkedIn and TikTok at @wordsbykristin.

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