Dolores focuses on women, gender minority skateboarders and inclusive skateboarding projects. “We focus on stories and milestones that have to be told by featuring skateboarders who inspire and empower community, the industry and future skateboarders,” says Abal.
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Skate Bylines spoke to the editors of a handful of today’s most notable skateboarding publications — Free, Dolores, Skate Jawn and Mess — for their perspectives on a good story and how to make a pitch land.
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History, as the cliché goes, is written by the victors.

Journalism, historical record of the published word, is written by successful pitchers.

“They spur the losers of the world to take heart — to rise and lose again,” writes Veeck. “Without losers, where would the winners be? So who, in the final analysis, is most entitled to historic memory?”

The New York Mets of 'Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game?' were record-making losers. They were significant, however, not only for their failure on the field but the inspiration which can be found in such failure.

Such descriptors can feel all too familiar for the writer (or any creative) who finds themselves striking out on a failed pitch or, worse yet, the deafening silence of unresponsive editors.

And what is “failing”, but a close cousin of “losing”?

In the introduction to Jimmy Breslin’s 'Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game?', an account of the New York Mets’ historically bad first year, baseball luminary Bill Veeck frames the story as “a history of the Mets, preserving for all time a remarkable tale of ineptitude, mediocrity and abject failure.”

As we endeavour to improve the accessibility of our editorial and expanding across formats, you can also listen to an audio version of the story read by @kylebeachy.bsky.social on SoundCloud, Spotify and Apple Podcasts and within the article itself at Skate Bylines.
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"I wanted it to breathe.I wanted to see Dylan riding up, riding away. I wanted to see everything, like the board going under
the bus, you know? When you watch Dylan skate, everything around him was so interesting too," says Greg Hunt 📷 Anthony Acosta — skatebylines.com/2025/05/26/d...

Dylan Rieder and Greg Hunt and frontside ollie during the making of 'dylan.' by Anthony Acosta whose work we're honoured to publish alongside this chapter from @kylebeachy.bsky.social's 'The Most Fun Thing'.
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"Whatever the change he caused, it was not language that did it. Dylan Rieder was no rhetorician, was not inspired to speak a movement into existence ... No, the revolution of Dylan was not linguistic. It was formal, visual, and spiritual." writes Beachy.
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'Ranked & Filed' brings you the headline story from Simple Magic’s weekly ‘Simply Ranked’ newsletter in multimedia form courtesy of Skate Bylines. Watch the video article at Skate Bylines or find the audio version wherever you get your podcasts. 🤝 @colenowicki.com
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"My goal was to get a mix of well-known and lesser-known people from all areas of skate culture that you didn’t see or hear in other skate podcasts,” says Delille of the show’s initial intention. 📝 @farrangolding.bsky.social
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'Ranked & Filed' brings you the headline story from Simple Magic’s weekly ‘Simply Ranked’ newsletter in multimedia form courtesy of Skate Bylines. Watch the full article at Skate Bylines or find the audio version wherever you get your podcasts. 🤝 @colenowicki.com
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Full version of the above highlight from the show, with Kyle's commentary on The Boss in 'Baker Has A Deathwish Part 2', playing below and catch the full episode where you get listenin' 📻
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