Press & Writing
Interviews with Jonny Kight and essays he has written for Little Black Book (LBB), plus his Substack — a producer’s notebook on money, craft, and the industry as it actually works.
| 10 September 2026 | Substack | My Production Principles Fifteen principles for running a production, written on the way to a dawn forest shoot. |
| 24 June 2026 | Substack | God save the hydration break, and a word from our sponsors On FIFA's sponsor-driven hydration breaks and what they say about who football is now for. |
| 6 September 2024 | LBB | Producing Tomorrow's Producers: Jonny Kight on slowing down and holding your ground Interview: keep learning, treat crews well, and resist the pressure for speed and volume so the craft survives. |
| 5 August 2024 | LBB | Is Work/Life Balance All but a Producer's Dream? Opinion: constant availability, last-minute awards and shrinking budgets make balance in freelance production hard to reach. |
| 23 January 2024 | LBB | Snow, Horses, Explosions: Producer Jonny Kight's '23 Highlights Interview on the year's jobs: Channel 4 'Rise & Fall', Coors 'Fresh Ride' and Audible 'Breakdown'. |
| 19 January 2024 | LBB | Setting the Commercial Production Agenda for 2024 Contributor: on AI in pre- and post-production, and why story and narrative will outlast the medium. |
| 2 May 2023 | LBB | My Creative Hero: Anthony Bourdain Interview: Kitchen Confidential, risk, and what a chef taught a producer about doing the work properly. |
| 20 April 2023 | LBB | The Informal/Formal: Mentorship Can Change Lives, That's Why We Need More of It Opinion: a proposal for an informal network of experienced producers anyone can call for advice. |
| 7 December 2022 | LBB | Is It Time to Embrace a New Production Model? Opinion: the agent-style production company model is ill-suited to a fragmented market; the case for flexible, cross-disciplinary ways of working. |
| 22 September 2022 | LBB | Mental Health Is on Every Screen, Things Look Different Behind the Camera Opinion: why production stays silent on mental health when advertising talks about little else. |
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