Tagged: journalism

How to Become a Travel Writer—and a Better Traveler: Pauline Frommer's Favorite Event Is Back

Here's a little secret that those of us in travel media know: You have deeper, richer travel experiences when you hit the road with a goal. Just knowing that I need to come back from a…

This Airline Is Cutting Your Legroom by 2 Inches, but the Travel Press Cheered

Sometimes the journalism landscape exists in a mental universe that the rest of us don't live in. We all know what life is like in the United States and across the world right now.…

London Pub Crawl: The Best Bars Around Historic Fleet Street

November 1, 2024 If London is, as is often claimed, less a single, cohesive city than a collection of villages, then the pubs are the souls of those villages. “The local” is a place to…

Better Visit D.C.'s Newseum Soon: It Closes in 2020

Just a little more than 10 years after unveiling a splashy new steel-and-glass building on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., the journalism-focused Newseum has announced it will…

Want To Be a Travel Writer? Here's One Way to Get Started

There's still space for students at our own Bob Fisher's Travel Writing Workshop up the river from New York City this September. No, it won't be in Sing Sing Prison, which is also up…

How to Get a Jump-Start on Travel Writing and Photography

Beaches, watermelon, tan-lines ... writer's conferences?!? Yes, summer is probably the busiest season of the year for would-be scribblers. And for aspiring travel talent, there's no…

Travel Writing 101: What is Good Travel Writing?

As I mentioned in part three of this series, Red Smith, a famed sportswriter a few decades back, said, "Writing is easy, you just sit down at the typewriter and open a vein." (For…

Travel Writing 101: Becoming an Expert

Getting published should be easy, I often think, telling my students "you just need to entertain your readers, who are, firstly, your editor and, secondly, the editor's readers." It…