343 - Sean Doherty: Golden Daze

New owner of Surfing World magazine, Sean Doherty discusses his acquisition, his latest book “Golden Daze”, and why it’s important for surf media to be helmed by passionate surfers and not by private equity controlled conglomerates. Enjoy!

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GOLDEN DAZE: THE GOLDEN YEARS OF AUSTRALIAN SURFING

SURFING WORLD MAGAZINE

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Onward and sideways! Surfing World has new owners. Jon Frank and Sean Doherty have joined “Da Guy” Kim Sundell as owners of the legendary Australian surfing mag. Frank is a water loving gastropod whose photography has elevated Surfing World to high art for two decades. Seano meanwhile has been lovingly shovelling words into SW for a decade now and is currently in the editor’s chair. Surfing World is staying in the family and will continue to document the wild spirit of Australian surfing as it’s done for almost 60 years. The new era of Surfing World kicks off with SW412 which will be published in September. @jon_frank_ @seano888
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Well this is a bummer… Surfer has closed its doors after 60 years. I’ve been lucky to have been there for about 20 of them and to have worked with great crew… my editors in particular. @chris_mauro @joelerson @brendon_thomas @todprod have all been great collaborators and mates who’ve carried the cultural weight of that mag proudly. @grantellis1 I’m going to throw you in there too, bru. Nothing broken about the magazine and it’s voice, just changing times and a shitty corporate media landscape. What Todd’s done with Surfer lately makes me feel it’s more the start of something than the end, and I hope a surfer, somewhere gets a hold of the magazine – or whatever form it takes – and starts publishing it again from the spare room in their house in between surfs, takes it back to where it started, the circle of life completing.
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MAURICE COLE’S BID FOR SHIRE COUNCIL

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Trump v Biden will be a walk in the park when compared with Uncle Maurie v the Surf Coast Shire establishment. Over 50 years, nobody has worked harder to preserve the coastline around Bells and the character of Torquay than @mcsurfboards. At an age he should be shaping in the Chook Shed in between two surfs a day at his spot between The Bowl and Rincon, he’s putting his hand up to run for council to save the coast he loves from becoming South West Grovedale. And don’t get him started on that bloody Winkipop platform! But if you live local and care about the coast and town here, get behind him. The council meetings alone will be entertainment enough… and he might just save the place in the process.
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