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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 
JOE SHARKEY (left) single-handedly saved the business-travel coverage of The New York Times with his weekly single-topic essay called On the Road. 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. His column posts on Tuesday. Sharkey has his own blog, too. ... ROGER COLLIS was the dean of Europe's business-travel writers for decades when he held forth at the International Herald Tribune. Now that he's on his own, he's just as good. 
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. He's much too quick to alibi for the Big Six these days, but he remains an interesting read. ... USAToday.com has gutted its online business-travel coverage over the years, but DAVID GROSSMAN, a former travel agent, tries to hold down the fort. STEVE HUETTEL (left) 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 reporting. ... NICHOLAS KRALEV is the diplomatic correspondent of The Washington Times. That means he travels a lot--and that means he's beginning to hate the life of a business traveler. He's turning some of that world-weary frustration into a new column about life on the road called, appropriately enough, On the Fly.WITNESS THE RISE OF THE TRAVEL 'EXAMINERS' 
What do you do when you buy and all-but-dead Hearst paper at the very moment newspapers in general are dying? You salvage the name, create a series of city-specific, news-like Examiner.com sites and convince folks to trade exposure and editorial freedom for expertise and travel stories. The idea has drawn hundreds of people who think they are travel experts--and a few who really do know what they are talking about. Most notable is JEROME GREER CHANDLER (above), a frequently honored aviation journalist who has a passion for airlines and travel in general and airline safety in specific. Examiner.com is also home to JANE LASKY, who has made a career talking about business travel and international manners and mores.WORTHY TRAVEL READS FROM AROUND THE WORLD 
CAROL PUCCI (left) 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 very best. ... DAVID BEAR, former travel editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, now writes at his own Web site and his stuff is always worth reading. The same goes for DON GROFF, who used to work across Pennsylvania for the Philadelphia Inquirer.
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. ... Another former Chronicle travel scribe, DAVID ARMSTRONG, has also gone his own way and collected his worthy reads at a personal Web site. ... BILL MCGEE is a former airline employee and former editor of Consumer Reports Travel Letter. His USAToday.com column combines both sensibilities and strikes a totally original tone.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 ConsumerTraveler.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. ... The Toronto Star, a Canadian tabloid, is also deep in travel columns. Copyright © 2010 by Joe Brancatelli. All rights reserved. (Last update: 2-21-10) |
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