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Print is Dead, SNOWBOARD Magazine to Focus on Digital Moving Forward
Its ironic as SNOWBOARD Magazine used to have one of the best forums, and online communities for snowboarders to gather and talk shop. Hopefully with this focus on digital they will bring that part of the site back as I haven’t been on their in years. Snowboarder need a place to lurk too..
So what’s this mean for the rest of the snowsports media world. You better start paying attention, print is dead. There is a reason the CU School of Journalism shut their doors down in 2011. The Mountain Weekly News was actually approached by the school to ask if these students would be able to intern with us to learn the ins and outs of online journalism.
“Since its founding, SNOWBOARD has been rooted in quality storytelling and we will continue that tradition in the digital space,” says Online Editor, Jens Heig. “Snowboarding is an experience meant to be shared. Our digital channels allow us to do that, and grow this lifestyle on an unprecedented scale.”
If you are reading this article, most likely you digest a good portion of your news online these days.
Snowboard Magazine was started by an actual snowboarder Mark Sullivan and his wife Liz. Mark had been working in So Cal and got sick and tired of the snowboard industry being based at the beach and most likely being run by a bunch of kooks. So he moved back to the mountains and founded SNOWBOARD MAGAZINE in a mountain town of all places, Sun Valley Idaho. Along with the Sullivan’s the mag had a solid crew to start it off including Gary Hanson, Jeff Baker and many more.
I sure dug riding this SNOWBOARD Mag Unity Collab in Haines, Photo Donnie Holtine | Mountain Weekly News
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