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    Quote Originally Posted by garymcmahon View Post
    The magazine is getting very professional--and large. It is largely about ultra-running and long distance challenges which I have little interest in. Fell Running covers alsorts of distances, terrains and challenges that aren't reflected in the magazine. I mainly skim it too.

    Well if I never read another BGR account I will still die happy but:

    i) the editor relies on voluntary contributions

    ii) every editor is different and they change things. I have submitted pieces to eight of them and while I might think some editors have been "better" than others there isn't a huge market for articles about fell running so you have to bear with it until matters improve

    iii) The Fellrunner is a broad church. I once casually commented to one editor that I found one writer's contributions to be unreadable and was told - quite rightly - that some readers thought his articles were the best thing in the magazine. So that was me told!

    iv) A good editor should believe they are trying to serve the broader interests of the membership - and not think the magazine is a vehicle for personal vanity - and fortunately most of them have

    v) I have written elsewhere about changes in content over the last 50 years. There really wasn't much coverage of ultra-running events etc 40 years ago because there weren't many such events; and there is a limit to how many articles can be published on, say, races over Pendle; and anyway Bill Smith has already written them.

    So, I am just grateful that for 50 years someone has always been willing to take on such a demanding role in which Neil Denby edited 29 issues (ie over 9 years), Britta Sendlehofer 21 issues (7 years) whereas the last three editors have only managed a total of 18 issues between them.

    Things change.
    Last edited by Graham Breeze; 04-12-2020 at 06:34 PM.

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