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CLARENCE BURBRIDGE is executive editor at Culture Is Our Business.
He created the copyediting service at TBWA\Media Arts Lab—Apple’s worldwide creative agency—where he served as copy chief from 2015 to 2023.
During that time he was also an editorial adviser to Emerson Collective, the eleemosynary change organization founded by Laurene Powell Jobs; copy chief at TBWA\MAL\FOR GOOD; and a copyeditor at advertising agency TBWA\Chiat\Day LA.
Journalism
In 1997, Clarence founded Cinema Minima for Movie Makers Worldwide. The online publication promoted the interests and aspirations of midcareer professionals who make movies far from Hollywood.
From 1997 to 2015, as executive editor, he led thirty accredited correspondents—reporting from film markets and film festivals across Africa, Asia, Europe, India, North America, and South America—to win a worldwide audience that made it the most-visited filmmaker website in the world in 2005 (according to Amazon’s “Alexa” rating service)—besting Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Screen, and Indiewire.
Among CINEMA MINIMA’s audience, sixty-six percent of its members pursue their careers outside the United States.
In business
Before his career as an editor, Clarence had been in business; for a decade, CEO of a manufacturer of industrial marking devices, leading the company and its 25 employees to annual sales of $5 million.
Education and formation
Clarence was educated at Brown, with concentrations in semiotics and art; at the University of Chicago, for graduate study in art history; at Rice University Media Center, for film production; and at St. John’s School.
As a boy, Clarence worked in his family’s factory as a printer’s devil every day after school until he went away to college. His apprenticeship developed his competences as a letterpress operator, typesetter, and commercial artist.
Extras
Clarence supports print with enthusiasm. He appreciates ephemera and philately, as well as fine printing, and works on paper, including drawing and watercolor. He subscribes to the print editions of three daily newspapers. He reads at least one book a week, usually nonfiction.
Clarence was born and raised in Houston, Texas. He is a native speaker of American English. He has a working knowledge of metropolitan French — Il a connaissance pratique du français métropolitain.
An avid cyclist, he rides a Brompton. Clarence lives in Southern California, by the beach. ☀︎