Founded in 2005 Iditablog.com has been on the trail covering the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race along with other major races, attracting a strong loyal following as we go. Always looking for innovative ways to communicate stories, Iditablog has taken advantage of many forms of new media including written reports, audio podcasts, live-on-site streaming radio broadcasts, and video highlights. Portions of our audio coverage were been inserted into Iditarod television productions by the Versus Network, and past articles have been featured on the cover of Mushing Magazine. The hard work has paid off, with the website seeing nearly 3 million hits on our website in 2010, doubled from the year before.
My name is Josh Rogers, I was born in Alaska and lived there until I was in elementary school when my family moved to Washington State. Some of my fondest memories as a child growing up in both Nome and Anchorage was going and seeing the Iditarod every year when it would come through our home town.
A number of years back my wife and I moved from the Seattle area, back up to Nome – it was like a homecoming. I worked on-air at radio station KICY and one of the highlights of my job there was the opportunity I had to cover the Iditarod. The days spent in remote Western Alaska checkpoint villages, and interviewing mushers along the trail helped me get back in-touch with my long lost childhood “Alaska side.”
So, here we are more than five Iditarod’s later and instead of a Nome radio station, I cover the race for Iditablog. Its gotten to be a lot bigger of a production than I would have ever expected but I’m glad that we’ve been so well received and we love hearing back from our visitors.
Feedback is the pulse of our operation here, this is a two way conversation. Please contact me by posting a comment on one of the posts, or feel free to (email me)
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