Brothels on a farm, airports designed like footballs, a visit to a kimchi museum, a midnight party with extras on a film set in Brazil — that’s the kind of stuff that will be online soon on Meander Magazine. The new e-zine is set to launch in July, and is looking for stories on all […]
» Read more...Month: May 2007
Job Lead: BUG Europe Travel Guide
The Backpackers Ultimate Guide (BUG) is looking to fill 12 one-month long travel research positions for a Europe travel guide. The job would involve: -reviewing hostels (100-150 words per hostel) -couple of introductory paragraphs for each destination (100-500 words each) -writing about eating & drinking sections for the larger destinations (100-500 words each) The work […]
» Read more...US Launch Tour: Lonely Planet Books
2)Unlikely Destinations:The Lonely Planet Story, jointly written by both Tony and Maureen Wheeler: Clear from it’s title, this book talks about the 36-year evolution of Lonely Planet from a barely stapled guide written by two travelers on the road, to the world’s largest independent guidebook publisher. When: The couple will be hopping around the United […]
» Read more...The Travel Channel Acquires World Hum
The word has just gotten out, and it’s already been covered considerably. The Travel Channel has acquired World Hum. Taken over!? Gobbled-up by the fierce and firey bigshots at Discovery? Log on to World Hum now and you can already see embedded into the page The Travel Channel orange ‘T’ on the top right corner. […]
» Read more...Interview: Pauline Frommer
Pauline Frommer, daughter of American Travel writing legend Arthur Frommer, has built a successful career in her own right and last year began releasing her own line of guidebooks, which have been highly acclaimed for her “Spend less, see more,†approach. She was kind enough to grant Written Road a candid interview. See articles, podcasts, […]
» Read more...The one trip a travel writer shouldn’t write about
That’s his/her honeymoon. It’s not that you couldn’t, but you really shouldn’t. I mean this trip is one where work shouldn’t come into play. You owe at least that to your new spouse. I’ve only been writing for this site for the past few months and haven’t even been properly introduced yet, so excuse the […]
» Read more...Book Passage Travel Writers and Photographers Conference
The 16th Book Passage Travel Writers and Photographers Conference will take place this year from August 16-19 in California, (just across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco). Word is that alongside writing guru’s such as Don George, Tim Cahill, Isabel Allende and Rolf Potts (to name a few), our very own Jen Leo will […]
» Read more...Job Lead: Intern at Monocle
Some more from Tyler Brûlé: his recently launched glossy Monocle is looking for an intern to work in their NY office. Send applications to Whitney Ross Lenoce at wr@monocle.com.
» Read more...“Take to the street and wander” – Tyler Brûlé
“…To become a real official resident of a city or truly fall for a place you’ve got to let the city push, pull, divert and distract you till you’re either worn down from over-stimulation, or you reach the point where you decide that you and the city are never going to be the best of […]
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