Skate Bylines is a spot for skateboarding journalism.
We’re an online publishing outlet for longform journalism about skateboarding culture with an additional focus on the global workings of skateboarding media.
Skate Bylines publishes original journalism and produces resources which feature insights from luminaries in skate media and from a variety of creative backgrounds. Skate Bylines curates an online library of high quality journalism about skateboarding published in endemic sources as well as mainstream media.
Where possible, we endeavour to have our original Skate Bylines features copy edited by a fellow journalist prior to publication to ensure the best writing our lean operation can offer.
For enquiries please contact: skatebylines@gmail.com and you can find us on Instagram, Bluesky, YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Soundcloud.
If you would like to support Skate Bylines, you can buy us a coffee.
Are you open to pitches?
Skate Bylines welcomes pitches however we are currently unable to pay contributors and believe in being transparent about this. Our first priority when receiving a pitch is helping the author find a home for it, where they may get paid for an article, and we’re proud to help facilitate connections to other publications and our colleagues in skateboarding where we can.
We will offer editorial advice in refining a story, even if we try to help you take it elsewhere, with nothing asked in return. With this in mind if you would still like to have a story published with us, and we like your pitch, we’ll take you through a professional editorial process to refine a piece prior to publication.
Press
“The absolute best example of independent media being executed with love, care and effortless expertise.” — Matt Barr, Looking Sideways & All Conditions Media
“Ten years ago, the words “skate journalism” would have sounded like a peculiar oxymoron. Thanks to Skate Bylines, we have a multifaceted testimonial and archive. More stories means more ways to connect to our culture, bringing more voices in, which means skateboarding as a whole is enriched.”
Theodore Ward Barrow PhD, art historian and host of Thrasher Magazine’s architectural docuseries, ‘This Old Ledge’
“A great initiative … [Skate Bylines] includes landmark journalism with always clever but also often beautiful essays about skating. Skate journalism is home to many writers with wit, style and purpose. Importantly, this site doesn’t erase women and genders who usually are left out by cool-guy curation.”
Dr Indigo Willing, visiting research fellow at the University of Sydney’s Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre and co-author of Skateboarding, Power and Change
“There is today, and in fact always has been, so much more writing about skateboarding than we know. Skate Bylines is a vital and long overdue step toward collecting and organizing the kind of work that all too easily, and quickly, slips into the ether. Our culture is richer for its existence.”
Kyle Beachy, writer and author of The Most Fun Thing: Dispatches From A Skateboard Life
“The skate-version of Longform.org … A new platform that aggregates and features works of skateboard journalism, rather than focusing 98% on video, like many of us do [that] also creates unique pieces of its own.”
Quartersnacks
“Skate Bylines is a valuable resource, and provides unique analysis, insights and opinions on skate-related journalism and media.”
Iain Borden, Professor of Architecture and Urban Culture at The Bartlett School of Architecture; Vice Dean-Education at The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, London
“Skate Bylines is a love letter to skate journalism aimed at highlighting quality stories about skateboarding across all formats as well as helping to improve accessibility in skateboard media. Whether you’re looking to feed your hunger for knowledge with some of the finest skate journalism from across the web or you’re a budding skate journalist looking to break into the industry, Skate Bylines has got you covered.”
Cardiff Skateboard Club
Testimonials
“Skate Bylines has assisted in creating a global community that makes our world as skateboarding journalists feel better interconnected. A big driver for the community by supporting and facilitating new opportunities for writers, Skate Bylines creates new resources that have never previously been available in skateboarding media, with articles including the ‘How to Pitch to Skate Magazines and Brands’, which introduces a skateboarding-centric approach to one of the most useful abilities for any journalist.”
Josh Sabini, journalist, photographer and editor-at-large, Monster Children
“Skate Bylines has proven a vital resource for me on the journey towards having an article commissioned by a skateboard-centric media platform. From first feedback on story concepts, through fleshing out and paring back initial drafts, and discussing prospective platforms to whom I might pitch, Skate Bylines has lent expertise and encouragement. The framework Skate Bylines has provided is truly unique in its scope and commitment, and has already been instrumental in bolstering the caliber and professional scope of my writing”.
Jacques Talbot, writer
“Skate Bylines helped me tremendously as a new writer. The editorial support I received was rigorous and encouraging, introducing me to the conventions of journalism while remaining attuned to the nuances of skateboarding media. This platform is more than a collection of articles and essays. It’s a community of writers at the intersection of skateboarding, music, architecture and academia — a reflection of skateboarding’s varied culture itself.
Dominique Teoh, skateboarder, video producer and author of ‘Preserving Memory and Material — Skateboarding As “Spolia”‘