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A Travel Writer's Resource Guide
We love travel. We love travel writing. We love travel articles, and here you'll find resources for both the novice and professional travel writer. Learn how to get started in travel writing, find markets, press trips, story ideas, media kits, research and much more...
 The moist breath of the surrounding rain forest flows through you with each lungfull of air as the small group makes its way along the narrow trail carved out of the steep river bank. Above, sunlight filters through the high canopy; below, the river flows lazily along, its high banks thick with jungle growth. Often, your guide turns and explains the flora and fauna surrounding you, or maybe a historical tidbit about the trail you follow.
As you walk along, you think about all the different angles you can use to write and publish several different articles from this one journey into the rain forest. You look forward to sharing the heat, dampness, and buzzing life of this thick jungle forest.
You smile to yourself as you make your way through the brush, and you think... "I've got the best job in the world."
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Oxford University Press Announces the 2009 Word of the Year
 PVNN
Oxford announces a new word every year that sums up, or encompasses, the last 12 months. Unfriend is a definite nod to the rapid rise of social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.
Sarah's Pissed Over Newsweek Cover? You Betcha!
 Capitol Hill Blue
Newsweek magazine dug up an old Runner's World photo of Sarah Palin in running shorts and used it on the cover for a story entitled How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sarah?
Journalist Murders in Mexico Hit a New Record
 Ioan Grillo
According to a tally by El Universal, the country’s top-selling newspaper, 12 reporters, photographers, editors and radio hosts have been slain this year — two more than in the previous worst year of 2006. The deaths — all of Mexicans working for local media — make the country the most dangerous for the trade in the Western hemisphere
The Heart is a Fickle Little Muscle
 Jan Baumgartner
The small beating organ we call the heart is a fickle little muscle; from devil-may-care Bonobo antics, to sheer indifference barely worthy of a pant hoot – I am unsure if the fickleness is survival of the fittest, or nothing more than a peak or dip in hormones.
Lou Dobbs Out as a CNN Anchor
 David Bauder
CNN's Lou Dobbs, a lightning rod for criticism following his transition from a business journalist to an opinionated anchor on such issues as illegal immigration, told viewers on Wednesday that he was quitting his nightly show to pursue new opportunities.
Turn Off the Diabetes Tap - Turn Media On!
 Jittima Jantanamalaka
Everyday, human beings are bombarded with broadcasts of unhealthy foods on television, radio, newspapers, magazine and on internet. The advertisements create new demands in people which ultimately causes unhealthy consumption behaviour.
The Media & Finger-Pointing in the US-Mexico Drug Wars
 Patrick Corcoran
If you believe their governments, the security relationship between the US and Mexico has never been stronger than it is today. However, beneath the high-level official contacts, resentment and distrust between the two nations still flourish.
News Group: Latin American Gov'ts Restrict Press
 Michael Warren
Populist leaders around Latin America are increasingly making legal and political moves to silence their media critics, the president of the Inter American Press Association said Friday.
Latin America: Journalistic Prize for Making Poverty News
 PVNN
The second "Latin America and the Millennium Development Goals" Journalism Prize, sponsored by the UNDP and IPS, was awarded this week in the Chilean capital in a ceremony addressed by the head of the U.N. agency, Helen Clark.
Reporter Kidnapped and Killed in Northern Mexico
E. Eduardo Castillo
A news reporter who wrote about violent drug crimes has been strangled in the northern Mexican state of Durango, authorities said Tuesday.
Grim Glossary of the Narco-World
 Ken Ellingwood
Average words aren't sufficient for the over-the-top violence of Mexico's drug war, so new ones have been invented.
Beck vs. Limbaugh
 Michael Calderone
GOP media strategist Mark McKinnon thinks there are two people in the world who fear Glenn Beck — even if "neither will admit it." The first is Barack Obama.
One Reporter’s Lonely Beat, Witnessing Executions
 Richard Pérez-Peña
Of all the consequences of shrinking newsrooms, one of the oddest is this: Fewer journalists are available to watch people die. But Michael Graczyk has witnessed more than 300 deaths, and many of those were people he had come to know.
 Blue's Doug Thompson on CNN
 Capitol Hill Blue
Capitol Hill Blue publisher Doug Thompson joined political bloggers on CNN Monday to talk about the White House war of words with Fox News.
White House: Fox News is 'Not Really News'
 Doug Thompson
Senior White House aides Sunday continued their war of words with right-wing Fox News Channel, saying the cable service is "not really news." This is news?
Elder Bush: Olbermann, Maddow are 'Sick Puppies'
 Doug Thompson
Former President George H.W. Bush says MSNBC entertainers Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow are "sick puppies" for the way they treat his son - former President George W. Bush - and other who don't agree with him.
2010 Writers Workshops in Sayulita Mexic
 PVNN
Starting in January, both aspiring and already successful writers will find something of interest to study, from techniques of memoir writing to blogging for a book deal, in the relaxed and welcoming beachfront setting of Sayulita, Mexico at The Sayulita Writers Workshops.
Journalist to Leave Colombia After Murder Attempt
 Associated Press
A Colombian radio journalist famed for broadcasting relatives' messages to kidnap victims says he's leaving the country because of an apparent attempt on his life.
Reporter Says She Won't Pay Mexico's Ex-First Lady
 Associated Press
n Argentinian journalist says she will not pay damages to Mexico's former first lady, despite a court order in an invasion of privacy case.
Young Writer Talks Poetry in Mexico
 Maria Gallucci
While paintings, drawings, designs and sculptures often flourish throughout Mexico City museums, galleries and bar-cafes, literature has often been the silent cousin to the city's fine arts scene. But despite a lower profile in the public eye, Adriana Irais Dorantes assures that the poetry, narrative and short story communities are strong.
"So Let Us Begin Again"
 t r u t h o u t
William Rivers Pitt delivered the keynote address at the Jefferson County Democrats 35th Annual Eleanor Roosevelt Awards Dinner in Colorado on September 19, 2009. Here is a transcript of those remarks.
Top 25 Censored Stories for 2010
 Project Censored
The latest collection of Project Censored’s research, the Top 25 censored news stories that didn’t make the news during 2009.
Argentina: New Voice for Sexual Minorities
 Marcela Valente
A monthly magazine published by an Argentine umbrella group of some thirty organisations of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and trans (LGBTs) seeks to become a major communications channel for the community and an instrument for disseminating the actions that sexual minorities undertake to defend their rights.
World’s Largest Gathering of Travel Media to Take Place in Guadalajara, Mexico - October 2009
 Travel Video News
The largest gathering of professional travel writers and photographers in 2009 will take place in Guadalajara, Mexico on October 8-13 when the Society of American Travel Writers (SATW) holds their annual convention here.
Cronkite Records Destroyed by FBI
 USA Today
The FBI destroyed its files on former CBS News anchorman Walter Cronkite two years ago under a policy that has been criticized by researchers for allowing potentially valuable records to be wiped out.
Gunmen Kill Mexican Reporter in Front of Colleagues
 Julian Cardona & Chris Wilson
Suspected drug hitmen burst into a Mexican radio station and shot dead a journalist in front of his colleagues in the latest brazen attack on the media, authorities and a Mexican newspaper said on Thursday.
Obama Open to Newspaper Bailout Bill
 Michael O'Brie
The president said he is "happy to look at" bills before Congress that would give struggling news organizations tax breaks if they were to restructure as nonprofit businesses.
Ex-Leaders Say Media Under Threat in Latin America
 Ian James
Former presidents from Peru and Bolivia joined newspaper editors from across the Americas on Friday in condemning what they call a series of attempts by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, and some of his allies, to clamp down on the news media.
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