Three Small Questions This New Year
Happy New Year all! Here at Written Road we may be separated by oceans, mountains and a few thousand miles, but our goals are the same: to become better writers, editors and tell the wonderful stories…
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1321 postsWorld Nomads Travel Scholarships: Launch Your Travel Writing Career
Found this lead on Twitter and wanted to pass it along. Do you want to be a published travel writer? Go on assignment to Kerala with Footprint Travel Guides! Applications close: January 9, 2009 Kick start…
Read more →World Hum 3.0 Launches
If anyone has yet to notice, World Hum , released their new design today. With so many travel magazines kicking the bucket over the past few months, it is nice to see at least one publication that is…
Read more →Interview: From Intern to Editor: How One Young Journalist Beat The Odds And Landed A Job
Sometimes these days it's easy to forget there are success stories in journalism. Like say for instance the story of Backpacker Magazine assistant editor Elisabeth Kwak-Hefferan. Elisabeth started out as…
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 →Travel Writers Wanted for Examiner.com
Have something to say but feel like you don't have an outlet? Then Examiner.com might be just the thing for you. Examiner is an online community made up of a network of experts and insiders around the…
Read more →Travel Writing and Editorial - one print editor's utopian view of online travel content
Regular readers will know that my professional transition from print guidebook publishing to the web is still very much in its infancy. My experience is rooted in a world of well-established publishing…
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 →Six Essential Multimedia Blogs
Part three of how to create video without losing your shirt is coming next week. This week I'm passing along a few blogs I would recommend adding to your RSS reader. Of course this is only a partial list,…
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 →Virgin Media need Freelance Travel Web Writers
Times are likely to get a little harder for all of us, so I wanted to share this one with all Written Roaders. Definitely worth a pitch me thinks. The gig Michelle Smith at Virgin Media would like to hear…
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…
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