About Gustave Axelson

AXELSON, GUSTAVE is managing editor at Minnesota Conservation Volunteer (www.mndnr.gov/magazine), a nonprofit outdoors advocacy magazine published by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. MCV is funded entirely by reader donations, and at 150,000 readers, it is the largest-circulation magazine in Minnesota. For the past two years, Axelson won the gold medal for best feature writing at the Minnesota Magazine Publishers Association Awards for stories he penned for MCV. Axelson also freelances for The New York Times, Backpacker, Men’s Journal, and Midwest Living. He grew up near Chicago (where he landed his first newspaper job as a sports reporter) and graduated from the journalism school at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign. He lives in St. Paul, Minn. with his wife, Amy, and two sons Anders (6) and Henrik (2), and he makes frequent paddling trips with his family into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness every year.

• Occupation: Managing Editor/Freelancer
• Organization: Minnesota Conservation magazine
• Location: St. Paul, MN 55119 USA
• Was accepted for Jan 10-15 2010 Multimedia Training.

Stories

Digital media stories published elsewhere by Gustave Axelson:

• Cloquet River Water Trail Interactive Map [edit]
  This Flash interactive map embedded with video clips accompanied a print magazine story about a canoe trip down the Cloquet River.
• Take a Trip to Minnesota Via Multimedia [edit]
  Gustave Axelson (Jan '10) assembled a slide show for the Minnesota Conservation Volunteer about a farmer that sued to save his wetlands and won. Axelson coached his associate editor on putting together this white water rafting trip down the Rice Creek Water Trail.
• Cloquet River Flash Map [edit]
  Gustave Axelson (Jan '10) produced a package about his canoe trip on the Cloquet River with an interactive Flash map. Axelson supported colleagues to create a package on trout angling with a video/photo slideshow, and a feature on Eco Yards with a Flash illustration.

Writing

Content on this site written by Gustave Axelson (includes contributory writing):

• Projects

  • Oakland School of the Arts
  • Oakland School of the Arts is a tuition-free public school that offers students access to a rigorous arts education for grades 6-12. It is located behind the historic Fox Theater ...