The world’s northernmost alt-weekly moves south

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For nearly 13 years, Mark Sabbatini has served as the sole publisher, editor and reporter of IcePeople, a paper covering Svalbard, a remote Norwegian archipelago in the High Arctic, for a global audience.

Earlier in his career, Sabbatini worked at newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times and the Antarctic Sun. In 2008, he visited Svalbard to attend a jazz festival and liked it so much that he stayed.

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