Thursday, February 17, 2005
Review in Zine World
Young Pioneers #1:
This premiere issue is an ambitious primer to the world of independent travel culture, interviewing a startling array of budget travel pioneers. Among many others, Dan talks to Lonely Planet founder Tony Wheeler; Susan Griffith, the author of the seminal Work
Your Way Around the World; and the Mad Monks. Read together, the interviews offer a fascinating history of budget travel - and the budget travel lit scene! Well done!
-Susan B.
This premiere issue is an ambitious primer to the world of independent travel culture, interviewing a startling array of budget travel pioneers. Among many others, Dan talks to Lonely Planet founder Tony Wheeler; Susan Griffith, the author of the seminal Work
Your Way Around the World; and the Mad Monks. Read together, the interviews offer a fascinating history of budget travel - and the budget travel lit scene! Well done!
-Susan B.
Saturday, January 22, 2005
Editor Dan Eldridge Interviewed on Canada's Radio Outpost
Last November, Young Pioneers' Editor-in-Chief Dan Eldridge was interviewed on Canada’s premiere independent-travel radio program: Radio Outpost, which broadcasts at CJSR 88 FM, in Edmonton.
The interview is available here.
The interview is available here.
Saturday, October 23, 2004
Young Pioneers Nominated For 2004 Utne Independent Press Award
Young Pioneers has been nominated for a 2004 Utne Independent Press Award in the category of Best New Title.
Here’s what the editors at Utne have to say about the awards:
“As we have done every fall for the past 15 years, Utne editors recently sat down to discuss, argue, and ruminate over the periodicals that most moved us in the past year. It's not a job for the faint of heart, considering we're choosing the best from the more than 1,600 publications that line our library's shelves. Far from a scientific undertaking, this annual exercise in journalistic judgment relies more on instinct, experience, and fond recollection than quantifiable evidence, but the nominees that emerged this year -- as they do every year -- speak eloquently for the quality of the independent media.”
A copy of the PRWeb Press Release can be found here.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 25, 2004
Contact:
Young Pioneers
Dan Eldridge, Editor in Chief
(412) 682-5355
dan@youngpioneers.com
http://www.youngpioneers.com
Utne
Marketing
marketing@utne.com
(612) 338-5040 ext. 338
YOUNG PIONEERS NOMINATED FOR 2004 Utne Independent Press Award
Pittsburgh, Penna., Oct. 25, 2004 -- Utne, the nation's leading magazine of alternative ideas, announces the nomination of Young Pioneers for an Utne Independent Press Award in the category of Best New Title. Since 1989 these awards have showcased the best from the Independent Press in categories ranging from reporting excellence to personal life, cultural and international coverage.
“Young Pioneers stands out as an important independent media voice. We are pleased to honor your accomplishments with an Utne Independent Press Award nomination," said Editor Jay Walljasper.
Young Pioneers was launched in April 2004 by Dan Eldridge, a freelance journalist and independent travel enthusiast whose articles and essays have appeared in Transitions Abroad, Giant Robot, Punk Planet, Seattle Magazine, Pittsburgh Magazine, Pittsburgh City Paper, Resonance, The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, MediaBistro.com, and many more. Eldridge’s travel writing has taken him to Istanbul, Turkey, where he worked as the Literature and Music Editor for the English-language Istanbull Magazine, and to Chiang Mai, Thailand, where he discussed Buddhist philosophy with novice monks. Eldridge has also worked as a bicycle messenger in San Francisco, a barista in Seattle, a bookseller in Manhattan, a dishwasher in Pittsburgh, and a busboy in Dublin, Ireland.
The Utne Independent Press Awards (http://www.utne.com/uipa/), previously known as Utne Reader Alternative Press Awards, recognize excellence in alternative and independent publishing. Utne’s editors select nominee publications through their extensive reading process and careful examination, rather than a competition requiring entry forms and fees. In this way, Utne honors the efforts of small, sometimes unnoticed publications that provide innovative, thought-provoking perspectives often ignored or overlooked by mass media.
Utne magazine, the nation's leading digest of the alternative media, has a paid circulation of 225,000. Since 1984, Utne has published the most innovative thinking on the critical issues of our time, always informing and inspiring its readers to action.
Young Pioneers is a small-press journal of Independent Travel Culture with one solitary goal in mind: to prove that long-term, low-cost world travel is easier, and much more rewarding, than most people probably figure. The premiere issue acts as a primer on the subject of independent travel culture itself, by introducing readers to a monumentally important group of writers, editors, filmmakers, artists, thinkers, and explorers who have been instrumental in creating the budget-travel and backpacking scenes we know today. Future issues will use immersion journalism techniques to explore the various worlds of working travelers, and other people who travel as a way of life.
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Here’s what the editors at Utne have to say about the awards:
“As we have done every fall for the past 15 years, Utne editors recently sat down to discuss, argue, and ruminate over the periodicals that most moved us in the past year. It's not a job for the faint of heart, considering we're choosing the best from the more than 1,600 publications that line our library's shelves. Far from a scientific undertaking, this annual exercise in journalistic judgment relies more on instinct, experience, and fond recollection than quantifiable evidence, but the nominees that emerged this year -- as they do every year -- speak eloquently for the quality of the independent media.”
A copy of the PRWeb Press Release can be found here.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 25, 2004
Contact:
Young Pioneers
Dan Eldridge, Editor in Chief
(412) 682-5355
dan@youngpioneers.com
http://www.youngpioneers.com
Utne
Marketing
marketing@utne.com
(612) 338-5040 ext. 338
YOUNG PIONEERS NOMINATED FOR 2004 Utne Independent Press Award
Pittsburgh, Penna., Oct. 25, 2004 -- Utne, the nation's leading magazine of alternative ideas, announces the nomination of Young Pioneers for an Utne Independent Press Award in the category of Best New Title. Since 1989 these awards have showcased the best from the Independent Press in categories ranging from reporting excellence to personal life, cultural and international coverage.
“Young Pioneers stands out as an important independent media voice. We are pleased to honor your accomplishments with an Utne Independent Press Award nomination," said Editor Jay Walljasper.
Young Pioneers was launched in April 2004 by Dan Eldridge, a freelance journalist and independent travel enthusiast whose articles and essays have appeared in Transitions Abroad, Giant Robot, Punk Planet, Seattle Magazine, Pittsburgh Magazine, Pittsburgh City Paper, Resonance, The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, MediaBistro.com, and many more. Eldridge’s travel writing has taken him to Istanbul, Turkey, where he worked as the Literature and Music Editor for the English-language Istanbull Magazine, and to Chiang Mai, Thailand, where he discussed Buddhist philosophy with novice monks. Eldridge has also worked as a bicycle messenger in San Francisco, a barista in Seattle, a bookseller in Manhattan, a dishwasher in Pittsburgh, and a busboy in Dublin, Ireland.
The Utne Independent Press Awards (http://www.utne.com/uipa/), previously known as Utne Reader Alternative Press Awards, recognize excellence in alternative and independent publishing. Utne’s editors select nominee publications through their extensive reading process and careful examination, rather than a competition requiring entry forms and fees. In this way, Utne honors the efforts of small, sometimes unnoticed publications that provide innovative, thought-provoking perspectives often ignored or overlooked by mass media.
Utne magazine, the nation's leading digest of the alternative media, has a paid circulation of 225,000. Since 1984, Utne has published the most innovative thinking on the critical issues of our time, always informing and inspiring its readers to action.
Young Pioneers is a small-press journal of Independent Travel Culture with one solitary goal in mind: to prove that long-term, low-cost world travel is easier, and much more rewarding, than most people probably figure. The premiere issue acts as a primer on the subject of independent travel culture itself, by introducing readers to a monumentally important group of writers, editors, filmmakers, artists, thinkers, and explorers who have been instrumental in creating the budget-travel and backpacking scenes we know today. Future issues will use immersion journalism techniques to explore the various worlds of working travelers, and other people who travel as a way of life.
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