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Three Emails You Should Read Every Day

Date: October 16th, 2008 |

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 shortchange my interview with interactive journalist Tyson Anderson (check back soon for that one—he’s got some great insights on infographics, pitching [read more]

Travel News and Features - where do your best stories come from?

Date: October 3rd, 2008 |

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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 to focus on the type of leads and people that really deliver.
With my background in guidebooks, my professional network consists [read more]

Twitter Part Two: People You Should Follow And New Written Road Account

Date: September 25th, 2008 |

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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 landed an assignment. It’s a game of adversity and those who are willing to work, push [read more]

World Travel Market 10-13th November - Free Press Registration Open

Date: September 19th, 2008 |

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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 exhibition centre too.
The annual four day trade show is THE travel gathering of the year in the UK with more [read more]

Meet the Frugal Traveler in New York

Date: September 15th, 2008 |

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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 writing.
1)What: A talk at Idlewild Books about the Grand Tour, literary travel, frugal travel and so on.
When: Thursday, September 18 at [read more]

Pitching Multimedia? Make Sure To Answer These Four Questions

Date: October 9th, 2008 |

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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 threatening contrast is between aggregation and original content — because aggregation is something that’s cheap.”
His words, though now buried deep in the archives [read more]

In October: Travel-writer events in NYC

Date: September 27th, 2008 |

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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 great travel-writers who will be talking about their books:
WHAT:
1) Wednesday, October 8 at 7pm: Stephanie Elizondo Griest reads from her new travel memoir [read more]

Job Lead: New travel website Trazzler.com

Date: September 20th, 2008 |

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Trazzler is a Tumblr-style new travel website that helps you decide where to go. It’s a new concept that gives you personalised, hand-picked travel options after analysing your travel history and even your personality traits. I recently wrote an intro on the site on Gadling, which you can read here.
As posted on Media Bistro, [read more]

How Twitter Can Help You Get More Assignments

Date: September 18th, 2008 |

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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 writers and wanted to let you know that the PR team at Fairmont Hotels & Resorts has created a presence on [read more]

How In Your Pocket’s re-vamped site acts as forum and practice ground

Date: September 14th, 2008 |

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In Your Pocket guides – synonymous with trustworthy local expertise – really came to the forefront of online and locally-distributed travel content via their coverage of emerging and expanding Eastern European destinations. I’ve caught up with Editor-in-chief, Craig Turp, for the latest news on their re-vamped website. Still at beta stage, the improved site aims [read more]

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