Happy 8th Birthday World Hum!
One of the biggest names in the realm of online travel writing, World Hum , is celebrating its 8th anniversary this Friday! The site is celebrating all week long with special content, starting off with…
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249 postsInterview: Kelsey Timmerman, Author of "Where am I Wearing?"
A lot of the time travel writing isn't glamorous or glorious; often it's about getting your hands dirty and working hard to unearth the truth behind accepted norms. That's certainly the case for Kelsey…
Read more →Writing and Photography Holidays from the Experts - newly featured on Tourdust.com
Read on if you've always fancied swapping your home office or the local wi-fi enabled coffeeshop for some on-location writing and photography training. Authentic tour and accommodation website, Tourdust…
Read more →Apple Computer's Best Kept Little Secret
Are you looking to jump into video, audio, or photography editing, but you don't have the time or money for a private instructor or a college course? Well, if you live by an Apple Store (even an…
Read more →New Media Skills: Creating Video Part 3 – Sweat The Small Stuff
So what separates the pros from first-timers? Often, it's just a few boneheaded mistakes that keep amateur videographers from producing quality clips. When I spoke to New York Times video journalist Erik…
Read more →Be part of the Make Travel Fair community
Travel has come to be associated with important global questions that deal with social issues, environment, and culture. One site, Make Travel Fair , is focused on engaging the travel community on just…
Read more →Online Travel Content - movers and shakers get together
It's certainly been a busy couple of weeks for the online travel community, with bloggers, developers, start ups and long-established travel companies chewing the cud together on the future of travel.…
Read more →New Media Skills: Creating Video Part 2 – Video Editing Programs
Though it's overwhelming—and often impossible—to keep pace with the innovations in multimedia technology, the good news is that whether you understand them or not, these innovations level the playing…
Read more →New Media Skills: Creating Video Without Losing Your Shirt - Part 1
Today I toured a million-dollar video production studio and once again have come to the conclusion that producing video can justifiably seem complicated to most people. Like…
Read more →New Media Skills: How To Create Audio Slideshows
The blood continues to flow among print journalists this week, but that just makes our opportunities to build skill sets even more important. We can react to the change in our medium by throwing our hands…
Read more →Travel Reading Group & Online Travel Writing Bootcamp - inspire and energise your writing
As a reader and editor, I've always had slightly more of a leaning towards travel literature than fact-focused guidebooks. Of course, both genres do have different jobs to fulfil; travel books' rich,…
Read more →Three Emails You Should Read Every Day
It's a short post today – I'm finishing the final touches on some presentations I'll be giving at the Society of American Travel Writers' annual conference in Houston, Texas, and I didn't want to…
Read more →Pitching Multimedia? Make Sure To Answer These Four Questions
Businessweek.com Editor and Chief John Byrne recently said, "It's not, as some people say it is, ‘online vs. print,' because the contrasts are actually more insidious and dangerous than that. The more…
Read more →Travel News and Features - where do your best stories come from?
I'm feeling reflective about pitches and travel features, and have spent time this week revisiting and reviewing my contacts list. And with World Travel Market on the horizon in November it's a prime time…
Read more →In October: Travel-writer events in NYC
We got a heads-up from ex-Written Road contributor Kelly Amabile , of some cool travel related events in NYC this October. Although the events do not talk about travel-writing directly, they involve some…
Read more →Twitter Part Two: People You Should Follow And New Written Road Account
I still can't believe I get paid to do this. Sometimes as writers it's good to step back and count our blessings. Got rejected recently? Yeah, me too. But you know what? I went back with another pitch and…
Read more →World Travel Market 10-13th November - Free Press Registration Open
WTM (World Travel Market) arrives at London's Excel exhibition centre from 10-13th November. If you're scheduled to be in the UK around that time I'm guessing you'll be making a beeline for the Excel…
Read more →How Twitter Can Help You Get More Assignments
Just this past week I got an interesting note from a very savvy and forward thinking PR professional. Hi Tim, I noticed your HARO request a few weeks back on new media resources available for travel…
Read more →Meet the Frugal Traveler in New York
Here are two chances to meet one of the most known travel-writers in the industry today: NY Times Frugal Traveler Matt Gross will be telling stories of his experience traveling around the world and…
Read more →Take a train trip with Paul Theroux. For $12,795 only.
In case you are one of those handful of aspiring travel-writers who are living off an inheritance, married to a celebrity, or have a sugar-daddy (or mommy!) at their beck and call, perhaps you might be…
Read more →The Frugal Traveler On Travel Writing
A quote from Rolf Pott's interview with Matt Gross : “Go into travel before you go into travel writing. You should know how to cross a land border, book plane tickets in a language you don't speak and…
Read more →The British Guild of Travel Writers launch NEW website
Founded in 1960, the British Guild of Travel Writers (BGTW) is an association of over 270 professional writers, editors, photographers, producers, radio and television presenters involved in the world of…
Read more →Shoot Everything – Even That Double Espresso Currently In Your Hand
My friends think I'm nuts, but I usually just laugh them off. Don't get me wrong; I pay for my arrogance by lugging around 15 lbs. of camera gear just about every time I go outside. The reason?…
Read more →Hi, My Name Is Tim, And I Am An Alcoholic
Okay not really, but if the expense account is big enough…. Last night while smashed up against the uber-fit writing crowd of Boulder, Colorado (read: I just ran a marathon and decided to swim a mile to…
Read more →Travel-Writing Getaway In Norway: 10% Off For Written Road Readers!
Creative Escapes , leaders in providing writing and photography holidays (recently even voted by the Guardian as one of the top 5 companies offering writing holidays), has just announced its next writing…
Read more →August Is Travel-Query Writing Month!
Friends over at Almost Fearles s have put together an initiative to help push ourselves to get our work published. The idea is to write a query letter a day, throughout the ENTIRE month of August, and…
Read more →New(ish) Travel Website Looking For Writers
Yup, I know there are dozens sprouting up everyday, but if you're looking to get yourself out there, you just gotta write. Even if it's for free. We asked the experts on this issue (to write for free or…
Read more →NYC: Travel-Writing Reading Series
If you're in the city Wednesday July 23 , you might want to go to the first Restless Legs Reading Series. You'll hear writer Tony Perrottet talk about his quest to find Napoleon's penis, and Cullen Thomas…
Read more →"Travels In Paradise" Accepting (and paying for!) Travel Stories
Dumont based travel website Travels In Paradise is looking for focused travel features exploring authentic and interesting locations (no travelogues). They are open to wide variety of topics and styles of…
Read more →Writing for Suite101.com and About.com: Is It Worth It?
Again and again I get questions about whether it is worth it to write for websites such as Suite101.com or About.com , so I thought I would breakdown my experience with Suite101 and what I have heard…
Read more →Fall 2008: Be A National Geographic Correspondent
"Glimpse" -- National Geographic 's new print and online platform (urr...magazine?) is looking for people aged between 18-30 who plan to spend at least 10-weeks studying abroad from August 15-December 30,…
Read more →Viva Travel Guide's Travel-Writing Boot Camp Schedule
Viva Travel Guides (a new guidebook company focused primarily on Latin America that offers all of their content for free online) will be holding a few guidebook/travel writing crash courses over the next…
Read more →How Important Is Blogging For Your Career As A Travel-Writer?
To blog or not to blog, that is the question (sorry for the awful rendition of a cliche). The upsurge and success of blogs in the online travel-publishing industry, has posed a hot question in the minds…
Read more →Live Blogging Session: What Do Readers Want From A Travel Blog?
An eternal question for those getting into travel-blogging. Folks over at Europe A La Carte blog will have a live-blogging session on this topic. A group of travel-bloggers (list not yet disclosed) will…
Read more →Questions with the NYT Travel Editor
Stuart Emmrich, travel editor of the New York Times , is answering questions from readers this week in the Talk to the Newsroom page. If you send them right now you still might be able to get one in. He's…
Read more →Travel-Blogging Lead: Writing For Planet Eye
As of today I've started blogging for new travel community and website, Planet Eye . I have been appointed their Madrid local expert and have to review places, gives lists of things to do and places to…
Read more →Travel Channel Acquires Vagabondish
Breaking news from the travel-publishing industry: Discovery's Travel Channel has bought over Vagabondish . First it was World Hum, now this -- both are great examples of small scale, personal projects…
Read more →Interview With Robert Reid: The Rise Of Online Travel Guides
I subscribe to a million (not exaggerating) RSS feeds, from EVERYWHERE. I enjoy most I subscribe to, and I subscribe to new ones almost every day (yes, I'm obsessed) which is precisely why I often miss…
Read more →New Writing Website: The Midlist Writer
Good friend, fellow traveler and writer Sean McLachlan (who has shared his advice for us here before), has entered the blogging world to share his writing experiences. Sean has been to 20 countries on…
Read more →Frommer's Travel Writing 101
For those of you who missed this, at end of last year, Frommer's came out with a Travel Writing 101 series of articles, written by Robert Haru Fisher: a contributing editor and columnist for Frommers.com,…
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