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Rock Magazine - new ed 17-Feb-2012 At 2:41:53 PM will5686

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>As a climbign editor I found it was a mammoth task to foster the writers
>and photographers to submit consistent material issue after issue. Many
>times I had to be very proactive - ie shooting photos for an article that
>had no photos, or visiting climbers around Australia to build relationships.

This is why most magazines won't get changes approved by the original writer. I'm not saying it's right - it is just what people do.

>I think being part of the 'scene' is almost vital to be an editor of such
>a niche sport - that is ruled by jargon, contrived ethics and tribal allegiances
>to places and people. Ross, and before him Chris did an excellent job of
>being an active part of this fragmented climbing community.

I agree. That doesn't preclude the new editor (I have the magazine, I really should check his name) becoming part of the scene. If the publisher is convinced that this is the guy for the job and the climbers want a good aussie climbing magazine (which I do - I can't afford to fly to America for a climbing holiday) then they are going to have to embrace him.

Or we could picket Prime Creative Media till they hire someone already in the scene, but South Melbourne is probably too close to Burnley to keep us there for that long... And with all the negativity flying around Chockstone these days (which is why I don't generally post here any more) any replacement would probably get similarly disparaged anyway. May as well embrace the guy and use his inexperience as a way to get him to listen to our ideas about what should be in the magazine.

I also cannot believe you got 6-8 climbers to volunteer to edit that magazine. There is no way any small magazine has anything close to that. Sometimes when I write stuff for my mag no-one subs it, it goes straight from my head to the reader, which I know results in more mistakes.