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How to start a travel blog in 2025: 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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What do you wear to Seven Magic Mountains?

Seven Magic Mountains is an art installation located in the Nevada desert, and the weather can be quite hot and dry. Therefore, it is recommended to wear comfortable and breathable clothing, such as shorts, t-shirts, and sandals or sneakers. You may also want to bring a hat, sunglasses, and sunscreen to protect yourself from the sun. It's also a good idea to bring a bottle of water to stay hydrated. While there is no strict dress code, it's important to dress appropriately for the weather and…

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Northeast News July 19, 2011 at 2:15am

Patricia, in the 19th and early 20th century, journalism was yellow journalism. So you're right: Sensational headlines and gimmicks were all over shameless.

Standards got higher after World War II as more journalists saw their profession as a profession, but now we're seeing a different desperate gimmick than the sensationalism of Hearst and his foes: We're seeing an integration of news and advertising.

On another subject altogether, the last two sentences of Allan Lynch's comment on this page made me laugh out loud.
Patricia Borns July 18, 2011 at 2:17am

I think newspapers have always used sensational headlines and gimmicks, we just weren't around to remembers.
David Paul Appell July 18, 2011 at 2:15am

I'll write to Columbia - maybe they should start awarding Pulitzers for ads, and just cut out that silly article crap.
Searching for Sincerity July 18, 2011 at 12:13am

Hi all, here's my latest post on my blog: Searching for Sincerity - an evaluation of Portland, Oregon. http://searching4sincerity.blogspot.com/2011/07/portland-oregon.html

Portland, Oregon

As seen on the TV series: Portlandia I am falling in love with Portland. When visiting family there recently, I was so intrigued by the p...
Allan Lynch July 17, 2011 at 11:03pm

I would love to comment, because gawd knows I have a lot to say on publishing topics, but only have 14 hours at home before I board another flight. In seven weeks I will have been in my own bed for four nights. My sex life should be this good.
Jill Wood July 17, 2011 at 10:44pm

The free paper, the Metro, does this all the time. Slightly annoying, but it's ad's which make a publication money, not readership, unfortunately.
José Balido July 17, 2011 at 10:04pm

Call me a diplomat, but I agree with all sides: it's necessary to ensure the survival of the Herald, but that doesn't mean it's not tacky, pathetic and preposterous.
David Paul Appell July 17, 2011 at 10:00pm

Well, most of the responses to my Facebook posted were pretty negative, including the words "pathetic" "tacky" and "preposterous."

http://www.facebook.com/david.paul.appell
Jose R. Garrigo July 17, 2011 at 9:31pm

Hi José, This is a hard one to answer unemotionally. Printed media is having a hard time surviving these bad economic times. Less ads. Less pages. Sadly, a few good reporters without a job. I also was surprised with the "front page" and realized it was a gimmick, not the true front page. You may have noticed this same thing in past Miami Herald Sunday issues (half front pages) but this is the first time that it takes the whole front and back pages. My take is that, while it's too commercial and I may not like it, what's important to me is that they continue having good investigative reporters, continue searching and reporting what is wrong in the community and that they report the news in a balanced and fair manner.
Simon & Baker Travel Review July 17, 2011 at 9:02pm

Based on your photo the Palm Beach Post had the same four-page ad.