Paintball Magazine June 2017 Issue | Page 18

From The Editor Two magazine Formats, Two Completely different points of view I ’ve been asked a few times about the difference in coverage of events and the magazine’s content differences in general between the print magazine and the digital and that’s a really good question. I’m guessing we may not have spoken about this enough so I’ll fill you in here. As you’ve no doubt noticed in this issue, there’s not a lot of lead time necessary to put together a digital magazine that has coverage and content from very recent events. As I write this on the eve of this issue’s release date Living Legends 10 ended just three days ago and we’ve got 30 pages of coverage, including some of the best paintball photos I’ve ever seen just a few pages to the right o f what you are reading now. And the NXL Texas Open, SuperGame 5 and the Millennium 018 paintball.media magazine Series European Masters all happened in the past few weeks—all covered in-depth in this issue. In the next print edition coming out in under three weeks we’re also featuring coverage of those same events (and others). But here’s the best part: We’re not duplicating coverage. We’re giving you coverage that was penned by different writers and we’re giving you photos that you’ve not see in our digital magazine. Each magazine will always have unique coverage of events, products and more. Ok, this is actually the best part. The print magazine will also have feature articles that do not appear in the digital magazine. As an example, the next print magazine has an article called “The Best Pro Season Ever? 2016 Edmonton Impact or 2005 Dynasty” and trust me you are going to want to read this. It’s been a while since any paintball media has shown any semblance of true journalism and that is