Mark Frith (born 22 May 1970, in Sheffield) is a British journalist, music critic, and editor.
[1] He attended Gleadless Valley Secondary Comprehensive School in Norton, Sheffield, before going on to study at the University of East London, where he edited the college magazine Overdraft, but did not graduate.
[4] He was put in charge in early 2000 and transformed the title from a 60,000-a-week selling magazine to sales of over half a million an issue.
[4] In October 2002, Frith began a stint as presenter of the BBC's Liquid News,[9] and later appeared on Radio 4's Front Row and BBC2's The Apprentice: You're Fired!
[10][11] The rights to adapt Frith's 2008 book, The Celeb Diaries, into a TV series, were acquired by Big Talk Studios.