*Media Industries* is pleased to announce the publication of its latest issue 8.1. It is a compendium of scholarly conversations about contemporary trends and developments in media industries. This issue features articles on the labour of digital privacy advocacy in the era of big data, gendered labour in the neo-art house, structured industry workshops as a methodology for research, the disruptive effects of streaming on the value chains of national cinema, as well as new perspectives to theorizing competition in video services. The issue also features reviews of some notable books that advance media industry scholarship. Kindly find attached the press release which provides more information about our current issue and reveals more details about *Media Industries*. Warm regards, Godwin -- Kevin Sanson Editor Godwin Simon Editorial Assistant *SENT ON BEHALF OF THE MEDIA INDUSTRIES EDITORIAL COLLECTIVE* Wenhong Chen, University of Texas at Austin Stuart Cunningham, Queensland University of Technology Michael Curtin, University of California, Santa Barbara Darrell William Davis, Lingnan University Elizabeth Evans, University of Nottingham Anthony Y.H. Fung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Jennifer Holt, University of California, Santa Barbara Ramon Lobato, RMIT University Amanda Lotz, Queensland University of Technology Paul McDonald, King's College London Ross Melnick, University of California, Santa Barbara Alisa Perren, University of Texas at Austin Kevin Sanson, Queensland University of Technology Wing-Fai Leung, King's College London Julian Thomas, RMIT University Patrik Wikstrom, Queensland University of Technology Emilie Yueh Yu Yeh, Lingnan University For more about the journal, please see https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/mij/ ---- Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex podcast: http://screenlex.org