Jules Older and colleagues honored

Cushing, Steadman, Tarallo and Older honored by the North American

Snowsports Journalists Association

The 2013 winner of the Mitch Kaplan Memorial Award for Excellence in Snowsports Coverage is longtime NASJA member Jules Older.

Older is a writer, videographer, broadcaster, speaker, consultant, editor and multiple winner of NASJA's Harold S. Hirsch journalism awards.

For 12 years Older was editor-in-chief of Ski Press Canada and Ski Press USA.  His commentaries have been broadcast on Vermont Public Radio and on KALW and KQED in San Francisco. He is Radio New Zealand's "IT Guy in San Francisco," contributing editor at Vermont Business Magazine and, until its demise, humor columnist for TWA.

The Kaplan award is presented to the journalist whose work best captures the spirit, enthusiasm and dedication of Mitch Kaplan, a long time freelance writer and photographer and former NASJA Secretary Treasurer, who died in 2010.

  

First established in 1963 as the U.S. Ski Writers’ Association, the North American Snowsports Journalists’ Association (NASJA) is the oldest professional association of snowsports journalists in North America.  With over 185 professional snowsports writers, authors, photographers, videographers, filmmakers and broadcasters, it is also the largest.

NASJA has a division of corporate members, including public relations specialists, equipment and clothing manufacturers, resort owners, state, convention and visitor associations and other snowsports professionals who have a commercial interest in promoting snowsports coverage in North America.   www.nasja.org