Media
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Landing Pitches with Skateboarding Magazine Editors: Making The Big Leagues, Part 2
The editors of Free Skate Mag, Dolores Magazine, Skate Jawn and Mess Skate Mag come together for a discussion of what makes for a good story and what helps pitches stand out. Story by Farran Golding Collages by Templeton Elliott In the introduction to Jimmy Breslin’s Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game?, an account of…
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‘Beyond Boards’ Hits A Hundred Episodes
“My goal was to get a mix of well-known and lesser-known people from all areas of skateboarding culture that you didn’t see or hear in other skate podcasts.”
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The Eleven O’Clock Number: Kate Bush with Geoff Campbell
Geoff Campbell talks about Kate Bush’s music in his own videos, alongside in Jacob Harris’ ‘Eleventh Hour’, for the debut episode of a new series on skate video soundtracks.
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The Quartersnacks Readers Poll: A Consensus By and For The Crowd
A harmonious exercise in crowdsourcing the year’s most significant skateboarding media.
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Making The Big Leagues: How to Pitch to Skate Magazines and Brands
Skate media practitioners across various creative fields share their experience and advice of how to pitch to magazines and brands.
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The Chrome Ball Incident’s Favorite Chrome Ball Interviews
“His little bit about Starship’s “We Built This City” remains one of my all-time favorite CBI answers.”
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Where Can I Pitch A Skateboarding Story To?
A continually updated resource of skate magazines and brands who are open to story pitches.
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Talking Interviews with Eric Swisher of The Chrome Ball Incident
Question and answer interviews have long been the predominant format for written skateboarding journalism. To unpack how they became so ubiquitous and answer what, exactly, makes for a good one, the script was flipped on Eric Swisher (“Chops”) of The Chrome Ball Incident.
