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The Future of Freelance Journalism, Part 1

Trudeau on tweeting journos, NPRIs there one? Decidedly yes. But it may not be all summer breezes, free wine and chocolate-covered strawberries. In the face of proliferating distractions, our man begins to glean that if the goal is to write more than 140 characters at a sitting, and also keep the kids in breakfast cereal, serious focus — and a good deal of risk — may be the only sure way forward.Friday, June 18,…See More

Jun 28, 2010

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Mar 25, 2010

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Name:: Page

Location:: Mammoth Lakes, CA, USA

Your Blog/Website:: http://sierrasurvey.com

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Type of Blogger: Travel Journalist

The Destination(s) You Blog About and/or Areas of Interest: Mountains, roads, deserts, islands, public lands.

Travel Type:: Adventure, Budget, Solo, Bicycling, Family-Friendly, Eco-Travel

David Page's guidebook to Yosemite, the Southern Sierra Nevada and Death Valley earned him a 2009 Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award, and was named "Best Guidebook of 2008" by the Outdoor Writers Association of California. He has written for the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Men's Journal and The New York Times, and is contributing editor-at-large for Matador. He lives on the edge of one of the largest calderas on earth, in Mammoth Lakes, California, with his wife, his two boys, and an illegal migrant canine representative of the Aztec god Xolotl.

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The Future of Freelance Journalism, Part 1

Trudeau on tweeting journos, NPR

Is there one? Decidedly yes. But it may not be all summer breezes, free wine and chocolate-covered strawberries. In the face of proliferating distractions, our man begins to glean that if the goal is to write more than… Continue

Posted on June 25, 2010 at 12:30pm

On Storm Traveling

Sara B. May, "After the Storm (with TTV framing props to seriykotik1970 on flickr)"

FROM THE RADIO CAME WARNINGS of dangerous water spouts as far inland as downtown, of power outages across the city, of imminent debris slides along the… Continue

Posted on March 25, 2010 at 2:42pm

On the Necessity and Wisdom - or not - of Promoting Our National Parks

It will be objected that a constantly increasing population makes resistance and conservation a hopeless battle. This is true. Unless a way is found to stabilize the nation's population, the parks cannot be saved. Or anything else worth a damn. Wilderness preservation, like a hundred other good causes, will he forgotten under the overwhelming pressure of a struggle for mere survival and sanity in a completely urbanized, completely industrialized, ever more crowded environment. For… Continue

Posted on March 25, 2010 at 2:30pm