2025 Is Your Year! Here's Who's Hiring

Hello, travel writers,

Last week, we talked about some of the incredible 2024 wins you shared with us, and this week we want to share some of your 2025 goals. Goal setting can be such a valuable exercise, and sometimes all it takes is a little inspiration. Here were some of the biggest themes we saw in your responses:

• Build relationships with editors that result in consistent assignments

• Work in a new medium (ie. video, print)

• Land a story with a new publication (or a specific household name)

• Plan out a travel schedule in advance, including press trips 

• Dedicate more time to existing projects instead of constantly chasing the “shiny new thing”

We challenge you to write down your own goals and track your progress — in fact, we even brought back our free goal and habit tracker, which was a huge hit last year. We look forward to helping you reach these goals and more in the year ahead through our classes (existing and new), coaching, our job board, and this newsletter.

Speaking of coaching, we now offer a new full-suite option that includes a full month (4 sessions) of 1:1 coaching. Have questions or want to add this onto your existing course purchase? Email [email protected].

And speaking of household names, our job board has a brand new job (listed today) at Travel + Leisure.

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Calls for Pitches

Nat Geo: Starlight Williams shared she’s looking for smart (not academic), interesting (not just to you), and relevant (to a global audience) pitches to fill the winter/spring calendar. See more.

T+L India & South Asia: Is looking to commission for its upcoming issues at T+L India & South Asia on two themes- 1) Romance: Connecting travel to the idea of romance through couples and the idea of romanticisation of a place through your eyes. 2) Summer Travel: With a subfocus on culture, let's redefine summer travel for the South Asian diaspora. See more. 

Remezcla: Remezcla editor Alexis Hodoyan says they are always open to music pitches but right now they are also looking for Black History Month stories by Afro Latine writers. See more.

Parents: Editor Elisabeth Sherman shared she’s often on the lookout for freelance writers to take on evergreen assignments for Parents.(Note: Not a call for pitches, but do send her your portfolio if interested). Email: [email protected]

Salon: Salon’s new Senior Editor for Culture, heading up coverage of TV, film, culture trends, is looking for pitches. Email: [email protected]

Report for America: Apply to Become a Report for America Corps Member! Report for America (RFA) helps local newsrooms report on under-covered issues and communities by placing journalists at news outlets throughout the country. It’s seeking talented, service-minded reporters and photographers to join its corps. See more.

Full-Time Job Openings

New York Magazine: Is looking for a gluttonously curious, editorially creative, ambitious, experienced features editor to join our award-winning staff. The perfect candidate will come with a minimum of four years’ experience editing feature stories and a robust network of writer relationships. See more.

Texas Monthly: Has an immediate opening for a digital managing editor, who will report to the director of editorial operations. A managing editor at Texas Monthly demonstrates leadership within the editorial department by leading the operations of one of its primary publishing platforms. See more.

Washington Post: The Washington Post’s Food team is looking for a full-time editorial aide to join our dynamic team of journalists. This is a detail-oriented position that requires a strong work ethic and the ability to multitask. See more.

The Points Guy: Is looking for a reporter to cover the airline, aviation and travel industries. The reporter must be able to cover breaking airline news as well write longer-term features that help establish The Points Guy as one of the top sources for must-read aviation content. See more. 

Dallas Morning News: Is looking for an Aviation Reporter. While its coverage centers on American and Southwest Airlines – both headquartered in North Texas – it includes operations at two major airports: Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and Dallas Love Field Airport. See more.  

Axios: Is hiring a Midwest Editor to bolster its team in the region, which currently includes 7 cities: Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Des Moines, Detroit, Indianapolis and the Twin Cities. See more.

WIRED: Is looking for an experienced, collaborative, deeply invested leader to oversee its ambitious, award-winning features program, special projects, and the print edition of its English-language magazine. See more. 

One Story We Love

Be A Travel Writer student Jessica Baltzersen told us she’d been trying to get a story published on the Cumberland moonbow “forever,” and she finally got it accepted by Sierra magazine! Jessica is proof: If you know about something cool and don’t give up on finding it the right home, you will land the story! We love how she combined personal experience, expert quotes, and researched information on how others can experience the phenomenon. Now, all we want to do is chase rainbows in Kentucky!

See you in class,

Stacey & Nina