Best Practices for Composer Collaborations & Ending Ghostwriting
If you are new to the End Ghostwriting campaign this is a great place to start that explains why and how I started this campaign.
03 December 2025 by Sheridan Tongue
Composers Anna Phoebe, Nick Foster, Tom Nettleship, Sofia degli Alessandri, Daisy Coole, Aisling Brouwer, Sam Thompson and Sheridan Tongue from the End Ghostwriting working group speak out about Ghostwriting.
End Ghostwriting Launch Campaign
The official End Ghostwriting launch campaign by The Ivors Academy.
16 October 2025 on The Ivors Academy website
Sign the Pledge
If you have not signed the pledge to end Ghostwriting then please sign. You do not have to be an Ivors Academy member to sign.
16 October 2025 on The Ivors Academy website
How Established TV Composers Make Collaboration Work
Curious about how other composers collaborate, I reached out to a number of my peers to ask how they bring additional composers onto projects, what challenges they’ve encountered, and how they manage cue sheets and credits in the process.
17 October 2025 by Sheridan Tongue
A Guide to Best Practices
Guidelines from The Ivors Academy which outline best practices on collaborating with other composers.
16 October 2025 on The Ivors Academy website
Media Composers Call for an End to Ghostwriting
‘It’s exploitation no one talks about’: media composers call for an end to ghostwriting.
Aisling Brouwer and Sheridan Tongue, along with Ivors Academy CEO Roberto Neri, tell us about the need to ‘create a new standard’.
09 December 2025 on the PRS for Music website
In conversation with: Sheridan Tongue, BAFTA-nominated composer
Interview with Sheridan Tongue on why it is so important to end this practice.
19 December 2025 on The Ivors Academy website
Ivor Novello Awards: 2026 Rule Changes
From 2026, entrants will also be asked to confirm that cue sheets list all composers who wrote a cue from scratch or made a significant new creative contribution. Entries that do not include all qualifying writers will be ineligible for consideration.