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HOW TO USE THIS PAGE TO FIND COLUMNISTS The JoeSentMe Fellow Travelers page endeavors to link to all of the bylined travel-related commentators currently published on the Web. The links in the left-hand column are divided by content area. Notable columnists are profiled below. Some columns require registration and/or payment. If you're looking for travel blogs and travel bloggers, please check the JoeSentMe Blogistan page. And Joe's Travel Newsstand links to all publications covering travel. -- Joe Brancatelli LIFE ON THE ROAD IN PERSPECTIVE 
ROGER COLLIS of the International Herald Tribune is the dean of business-travel journalists in Europe. He also created the template for the business-travel columns in newspapers worldwide. He writes from Paris now and his sage and insightful commentary is useful to all international travelers. His columns post every Friday and rotate between single-topic essays and Q&As. His columns often appear in the IHT's parent, The New York Times.
JOE SHARKEY single-handedly saved the business-travel coverage of The New York Times with his weekly single-topic essay called On the Road and a weekly notes column called Memo Pad. He would be a must-read simply because his material appears in The Times, of course, but Sharkey brings admirable skepticism and a fresh view to all his work. Both columns post on Tuesday. Sharkey has just launched his own blog, too.
TOM BELDEN (left) wrote a much-admired and carefully read business-travel column for The Philadelphia Inquirer for about 15 years. Then, in 2002, the powers-of-the-moment at the paper killed it. Thankfully, Belden is back on the business-travel beat at The Inquirer in both column and blog form. Belden's material focuses on Philadelphia, a refreshing change from the New York-California business-travel axis. ... SCOTT MCCARTNEY is a terrific reporter and helps shape the national impression of business travel with The Middle Seat column of The Wall Street Journal. Which is why his occasional proclivity for treating self-aggrandizing top executives of money-gushing airlines as the second coming of Bernard Baruch is so frustrating. BETTY W. STARK (left) is a much-needed new voice on the business-travel landscape. Her monthly column for the Capital Region Business Journal, in Madison, Wisconsin, adds a mid-continent view of life on the road. Welcome to a dose of reality from fly-over country. ... TED REED has covered airlines and travel for newspapers in Miami and Charlotte, then did a stint at a Big Six airline. Now he writes for TheStreet.com. ... BILL MCGEE is a former airline employee and former editor of the Consumer Reports Travel Letter. His column at USAToday.com combines both sensibilities and it strikes a totally original tone. STEVE HUETTEL now holds court at the St. Petersburg Times after a career spent covering business travel in Florida. Given how business travel in Florida is growing, that's no easy task, of course. So Steve has launched his own business-travel column to supplement his daily reporting.WORTHY TRAVEL READS FROM AROUND THE WORLD 
DAVID BEAR, the travel editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, writes his column every two weeks or so and it sizzles with fresh thinking and insight into the act of travel. He also revels in the petty ironies and annoyances of travel and reminds us why we hit the road in the first place. On travel topics great and small, Bear's columns are always great reads.
CAROL PUCCI of the Seattle Times writes her Travelwise column on the last Friday of every month. She always offers sensible, simple advice on the art of travel. She covers "everything from the best resources to how to tap into the local culture." And she does it clearly, with an admirable sense of adventure. This is "practical travel" coverage at its best. ... JOHN FLINN of the San Francisco Chronicle loves to travel off the tourist grid and he writes with verve, style and a lot of other admirable adjectives. When Flinn is on the road, he's a compelling read. When he's writing from his desk about being on the road, he's a compelling read. Flinn, travel editor of the Chronicle, posts his column each Sunday.
DON GEORGE (left) has had notable editorial stints at the San Francisco Chronicle and LonelyPlanet.com, but now he's launched Don's Place thanks to the help of a large tour operator. Where George goes, you should follow. Quickly. 'Nuff said. ...
PATRICIA WELLS often covers food and dining for the International Herald Tribune. She also reviews restaurants in the world's most important business-travel cities, but spends most of her time in Paris. And she writes about humble neighborhood bistros with the same passion that she brings to her coverage of the City of Light's gastronomic palaces.AFTERWORDS... 
The Internet is full of travel writers. Some of the very best contribute to Worldhum.com. ... Chris Elliott is the Moses of travel columnists. He's led his flock of talking heads through the Web desert from one site to the next and now they can be found at Tripso.com. ... There are now one billion travel columnists--I counted--at USAToday.com. ... You will also find a regular roster of columnists at SmarterTravel.com. Among the major daily newspapers, no Sunday travel sections run more opinion columnists than the Daily Herald from suburban Chicago. The Toronto Star is also deep in travel columns.
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