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Each year the snowboard magazines decide their top snowboard choices by designing boards tests built around various methodologies.   Snowboard Magazine  has their Platinum Pick describes as the “best of the best.  Here you find out our choices for best jib boards, best powder boards and just plain best things…” Despite discussing methodology in previous [...]

Job Title: Director of Marketing and Advertising Employer: Frequency The Snowboarder’s Journal Years on snow: 18 Days on snow: 40-50 powder days… Currently Riding: Selection of boards from Burton, K2 and Lib Tech. Currently I am: Eating a sandwich Shay: Tell us a little bit about yourself Matt: My name is Matt Wibby. I grew [...]

I’ve gone through the Good Wood and the Best Of which means it’s onto the final test brought to you by Snowboard Magazine with their annual Platinum Pick.  The Platinum Pick test took three of Snowboard Magazine’s editors as the testers (1 female Tawyna Schultz and 2 males, Nate Deschenes and Chris Owen) who ride [...]

There’s a new way to enjoy snowboarding in Colorado this winter with the introduction of Snowboard Colorado Magazine hitting the local shops.  The magazine just enjoyed their inaugural issue with a launch party in Colorado to introduce the magazine to the Colorado scene.  Now every month from September to May you can pick up an [...]

Frequency fits a different mold than your average snowboard magazine; the quarterly publication is focused on high quality and limited advertising which is rare in snowboarding.  Founded in 2001, Frequency: The Snowboarders Journal has grown to become a popular magazine for snowboarders wanting more than a throwaway magazine and the editorial/photography speaks for itself when [...]

Each year the snowboard magazines decide their top snowboard choices by designing boards tests built around various methodologies.   Snowboard Magazine  has their Platinum Pick which focuses on the “all-around” board and the list is out for the 2010 Platinum Pick winners. The Platinum Pick methology brings 70 boards to the table (2  all-around boards [...]

Shay: Tell us a little bit about yourself Jesse: I am short, stocky, and spend way too much time in front of a computer, but feel incredible lucky to being doing what I am doing and working with the people that I get to work with. Shay: What is your job title? Jesse: In the [...]

Across the world, print media is having a difficult time. Not just in snowboarding, but in all the magazines that cover multiple genre’s. It’s quite normal to open a magazine and find more ads than content but now that’s been noticeably declining. I’m guessing that the magazines with less ads are actually finding themselves in [...]

2009 marks the beginning of the first annual women’s issue of SNOWBOARD magazine with a cover shot of Gretchen Bleiler by Zach Hooper. If you subscribe to SNOWBOARD magazine you’ll be getting this supplement to the magazine in the mail as well. If you are a guy, you can flip through it or just pass [...]

Industry Profile: Freelance Writer Brooke Geery Shay: Tell us a little bit about yourself? Brooke: I am about to tell you a lot of stuff about myself, so I will keep this short. My name is Brooke. I do “extreme” stuff and then write it off my taxes.Shay: What is your job title? Brooke: I [...]