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The Best Way to Learn to be a Travel Journalist - Career Savvy in Changing Times focus of SATW Institute for Travel Writing & Photography in Orlando
Now in its 15th year, the annual SATW Institute for Travel Writing & Photography offers cutting-edge instruction for both new and established travel journalists struggling to make sense of the rapid changes in today’s media landscape. To be held January 15-17, in Orlando, FL, the SATW Institute is America’s foremost program to assist aspiring travel writers and photographers launch their careers.
“These are exhilarating and terrifying times to be a writer,” says Sandra Friend, author of 12 guidebooks to Florida and the new director of the SATW Institute. “You can reach out and touch your readers like never before-but traditional markets for our work are drying up. It’s time to be innovative.”
Innovative ideas that SATW Institute attendees will learn include producing multimedia for the Internet and how to generate income from a variety of online sources, including e-books, mobile applications, and website subscriptions.
A special “Travel Journalism 101″ workshop is part of the lineup this year, where aspiring journalists can learn career basics. Led Christopher P. Baker, 2008 Lowell Thomas Journalist of the Year, the two-hour Friday afternoon session will focus on choosing markets, crafting your queries, reading contracts, fulfilling assignments, and creating engaging travel stories. It is open to all interested registrants for a $50 workshop fee.
The SATW Institute kicks off in earnest the evening of Friday January 15th with a free public presentation at the Orlando Public Library at 6 PM by Christopher P. Baker, Reflections on Cuba. As a guidebook writer and travel photographer, Christopher recounts his travels through Cuba with vivid imagery while he shares lessons learned about travel journalism along the way.
Saturday and Sunday, SATW Institute attendees are treated to a fast-paced series of tightly focused seminars and breakout discussions on topics designed to deepen your career savvy as a journalist, including personal branding, visual storytelling, breaking into new online markets, and repurposing your research as product. Instructors include some of the top names in the travel journalism field: USA Today Deputy Managing Editor for Travel Veronica Stoddart; online travel journalism pioneer Lee Foster; author and self-publishing authority M. Timothy O’Keefe; Canadian broadcast journalist and web producer Bea Broda; University Press of Florida Editor-in-Chief John W. Byram, SATW Institute founder and tourism expert Herb Hiller; and others. Generous support is provided by the Orlando Downtown Development Board and Orlando/Orange County Convention & Visitors Bureau.
The Marriott Courtyard Orlando Downtown is our host hotel. Registration starts at $295 and seating is limited to assure a quality experience. For a registration form, conference schedule, and hotel information, visit our website at http://www.satwinstitute.org/
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