November Press Trip to El Salvador
With the recent change of the clocks, November evenings certainly have gotten dark. Sounds like it's time to start focusing on writing about warm weather destinations to get you out of the approaching…
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1321 postsNew 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 →Destination-wedding and travel writers - call to contribute
Recently wed New York City bride, Lyla Gleason, is calling out to travel writers for ideas old, ideas new, weddings sundrenched, skies of blue for globetrottingbride. You're not ruled out if you're…
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 →Interview: Tim Patterson
Working in the online travel writing community means that sometimes you feel like you know people without having ever met them. Such is the case with Tim Patterson. A well known name on the Matador…
Read more →Rethinking Newspaper Travel Stories - Don't Just Tell, Show
We read a lot about the death of print these days . For travel journalists like myself the statement is usually followed up with a stiff drink and not-so-fleeting moment of insecurity. Just this past week…
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 →The Death of the American Newspaper Travel Section
So, after countless times of hearing a reply from a newspaper travel editor that goes something along the lines of “we are only doing regional stories now†or “are budget has been cut back and I…
Read more →National Geographic Glimpse Correspondents Wanted
This lead is for all the young journalists out there waiting for their big break. National Geographic Glimpse , a new multimedia platform devoted to exploring real life abroad, is looking for young…
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 →City bloggers/editors wanted for blog network and guidebooks
I don't have any statistics to back up this statement, but from personal experience and gauging from what I have seen and read over the last year, blogs have definitely become the way to search for travel…
Read more →Calling all travel industry bloggers – apply now for the 2008 PhoCusWright Bloggers' Summit
Running from November 17-20 at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel, Hollywood, California, The Bloggers' Summit , part of the PhoCusWright Travel Industry Event of the Year is a way for travel industry…
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