Early build. Alumni are being invited to add their credits now. The three named profiles carry only what The Media Tribe already publishes. Records marked SAMPLE are illustrative, to show what a populated record looks like, and will come down as real ones arrive.
Alumni
Profiles are listed at the alumnus’s own request and name their course at The Media Tribe; records marked SAMPLE are illustrative. Each credit shows how far we have been able to check it — and says so plainly when we have not.
Counted from published profiles only. A credit is verified when a member of TMT faculty opened a public source on a stated date and saw the alumnus's name against the claimed role. We count credits and releases, never people — a number of graduates "working in the industry" would be a placement statistic, and we do not make those.
Alumni
Recognition for graduates whose work has been heard, credited and independently documented. The rules are published before the first class, so that nobody has to wonder how anyone got in.
The rules, in full
Any graduate of any Media Tribe course, at least five years after they finished. Living and deceased alumni are both considered.
A sustained body of work in music, film, games or live sound that has been recognised beyond The Media Tribe — and, separately, a category for a recent graduate whose first five years have been exceptional.
A committee of TMT faculty and two working professionals from outside the school. From year two, at least one seat is held by a past inductee, and that seat is permanent. This is written down so that the hall stops being one person's list as early as possible.
Nominations come from anyone except the nominee. Family members may not write letters of support.
In a year when the committee does not find a candidate it is confident about, the honour is not given. A quiet year is not a failure; a class assembled to fill a slot is.
An unsuccessful nomination stays live for two further years without being resubmitted. Timing is not merit.
There is no donation, fee or enrolment referral that affects selection, and none will be introduced. Membership of the committee is unpaid.
An induction is revoked only where the person has been adjudicated — by a court, tribunal or a body with jurisdiction — to have committed serious misconduct. Allegation is not adjudication. We publish this now, before the first class, because writing it after an incident would look like a response to that incident.
Nominations open in September. Tell us who, what they have done, and why now — three paragraphs is enough. The committee decides only on what is in front of it, so a thin nomination of a deserving person fails.
Alumni
Our students are in eleven cities across five countries. This page exists so that the eight of you in one city can find each other and put a night in the diary — and so that a producer in Dubai looking for an engineer can find one.
Any city with four or more alumni can call a meet-up. TMT does not organise these and does not attend uninvited — it puts the date on this page, sends one note to everyone in that city, and stays out of the way. Ask us and we will do that within a day.
Alumni
Sessions get staffed by word of mouth, and the word travels along the people you trained with. This is that, written down. Only alumni and current students can post; only alumni and current students can see contact details.
There is no "out of work" flag here, and there never will be. In a business this small, a public distress signal costs the person more than the post can win them. What this board carries instead is the language the industry already uses about itself: a diary. A freelance engineer with an open diary is not unemployed — they are working, and they have room. That is the honest, ordinary way to say the same thing, and it is the way that gets someone hired.
Everything on this board expires by itself: a role after 45 days, an availability state after 60, unless you renew it. Nothing here rots into a graveyard of dead posts, which is how every small job board dies.
Alumni
Everything on the alumni pages begins as something a person told us about themselves. That is worth saying out loud rather than burying: the first source of every credit here is the alumnus's own word. What follows is what we do about that.
The four states, and what each one means
A moderator searches the obvious places — the release itself, the label's page, the film's full credits, the awarding body — and opens what they find. Most credits resolve here.
The moment a credit is verified, the source page is saved to the Internet Archive and the timestamped snapshot is stored beside the live link. Databases close: one that our earlier plan relied on shut down in December 2025 and took every one of its links with it. Evidence that lives only at someone else's URL is not evidence.
Not to the alumnus — to the person who would know. The artist, the label, the studio manager, or the engineer who supervised the session. One short note, and the credit stays visibly unverified until an answer comes back.
A confirmation moves the credit to Verified by TMT, dated. Silence after ninety days leaves it self-reported for good — not deleted, not hidden, just never vouched for. A denial removes the credit and we tell the alumnus who said so and why.
Sent from a named person at TMT, never a no-reply address. It asks one answerable question and offers the recipient the easiest possible way out.
Tell us and we will act, whoever you are. A disputed credit is hidden within two working days while we ask for evidence. It comes back only if it can be verified, and is deleted after thirty days if it cannot. If you are the alumnus and you think we were wrong not to verify something, send liner notes or a note from the label and we will raise it the same week. We do not charge for any of this and we do not require you to be polite about it.
Alumni
Ten minutes, once a year. What you send goes to a moderator, not straight to the site — nothing appears until a person has read it and you have said yes.