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The youngest woman to visit every country: the inspiring journey of Lexie Alford

Lexie Limitless Travel often begins as a dream—one sparked by curiosity, adventure, or a desire to understand the world beyond familiar borders. For Lexie Alford, a YouTuber from California, that dream turned into an extraordinary global achievement. She became the youngest woman to visit every country in the world, a feat that most people only imagine but never attempt. By the age of 21, Lexie had traveled to all 195 sovereign countries, including some of the most challenging and restricted…

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How to start a travel blog right now: ideas and suggestions

AlexBrylov Starting a travel blog this year can be an exciting and rewarding journey, allowing you to share your adventures, inspire others, and even generate income. With evolving digital trends and increasing opportunities in the travel niche, this is the perfect time to launch your blog. Here’s a step-by-step guide, along with content ideas and suggestions to help you succeed. read post

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A tribute to my friend, the late travel media icon Arthur Frommer

The legendary U.S. travel journalist and entrepreneur Arthur Frommer passed away November 18 at the age of 95. Born in Virginia and with an early boyhood in a small town in Missouri, Arthur was a lawyer who became a pioneering and great travel journalist, and who will be remembered as having helped open the joys of travel to the masses. While serving in the U.S. Army in Europe in the 1950s, he got the travel bug, came out with a travel guide for servicemen, and followed up in 1957 with…

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Free access to Encyclopaedia Britannica for journalists

My editor at Encyclopaedia Britannica has asked me to extend this offer to all my journalist colleagues. You are invited to enjoy free access to all its factchecked resources, and if you do link to a Britannica story in your articles, none of the content linked to will be paywalled. Your readers in turn will have full and free access to Britannica's content. To get your free, personal subscription, just go to britannica.com/journalists and enter the code: EXPERT-CONTENT.

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Hal Peat February 8, 2011 at 4:02pm

Regarding this question of no-pay at HuffPo - I guess you all missed the conversations that ensued elsewhere when certain travel bloggers went and wrote for free on HP and then justified it in blogs again elsewhere on the basis that they got a readership boost back on their own individual blogsite thanks to the linkback that HP allowed. Then there was another HP blog controversy last summer when someone wrote a (free) HP blog in the travel section entitled "Why WE travel..." which additionally tried to assert the One True Way to travel and write nowadays. He was rightly taken to task by Mike Barish on his blogs on Gadling. Then yet again, if you noticed any of that out of the corner of your eye but wisely decided to ignore it entirely, so much the better for you. I should be so wise myself. "If you wrestle with a pig, you'll just get mud on yourself -- and the pig will enjoy it."
Sam Scribe February 8, 2011 at 12:53am

Quite right, Allan. Unless I have the story wrong, A.H. retains her position as editor of the Huffington Post, so the message to me is that HuffPost is successful as is and AOL has no incentive to amend the business model.

I've canonize Samuel Johnson, who said, "No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money."
Allan Lynch February 8, 2011 at 12:48am

Why would AOL now pay for content? At least from those who wrote for the Post? Hey, if you would write for one multimillionaire for free why would AOL expect to pay you? They can offer even greater exposure. Writing for free, you've set your price.
Portugal Dream Coast February 7, 2011 at 11:01pm

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Dick Jordan February 7, 2011 at 8:08pm

Read comments #28, 35, 37, 100, 113, 138, and 201 to this New York Times story on the sale of Hu-Po to AOL: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/07/business/media/07aol.html
Dick Jordan February 7, 2011 at 7:13pm

Looks like Arianna has proved that there is money in blogging, getting all of the "exposure" that she could have desired, in the process.

Will AOL now pay writers a nickel a story (a huge increase from Hu-Po rates)? Will it allow travel writers to accept free or discounted travel?

Stay tuned.
Donna M. Airoldi February 7, 2011 at 7:00pm

I'm with Judy. Exposure doesn't pay the mortgage.
Lucy Beebe Tobias February 7, 2011 at 6:56pm

Amen, Judy, "show me the money"
Judy Wells February 7, 2011 at 5:09pm

Just how much "exposure" does anyone need? I'd rather have paying assignments, thank you very much.
Donna Hull February 7, 2011 at 5:05pm

Well said, Allan. I wonder how Huffington's writers feel about all that free exposure now. Adrianna's laughing all the way to the bank. However, will AOL follow suit and adopt the "we don't pay for content" strategy now that they've purchased Huffington Post?