Rumors have been floating around for a while, but while I was in NH shooting, it became official. Matt Samet, a good friend, and uber talented writer and experienced climber had stepped down from his position as Editor in Chief @ Climbing Magazine. I had alluded to how many hats the stripped down editorial staffs at publications wear these days and wondered how long they could remain sane.
Well Peter Beal’s great Blog has an interview with Ex-Editor In Chief at Climbing, Samet, and he talks at great length about what it was like in the trenches, speaking quite openly about everything from workload to online media to photography.
Check it out HERE.
‘Basically, if you were the top editor on a feature or a department, it was also your job to call in the images; which meant it was mostly my job. We’d do our best, always having two people sit down and look at each batch of photographs together, so a consensus could emerge about the strongest images. But, I mean, I don’t have any formal training in photography, so the technical nuances a photo editor would pick up on I’m sure have eluded me at times.’
thanks for pointing this out, it was amazing insight into the sad state of outdoor editorials. Somethings got to shake out, I just wonder what form it will take.
No good. I liked working with Matt. Hope someone just as good as him can fill in.