Mary Moore Mason, the editor of Essentially America magazine since its launch in 1994 as well as the editor of a number of other Phoenix International Publishing publications, has won several journalist awards. Among them is the first annual award ever given (in 2006) by the UK’s prestigious Visit USA Association for “an outstanding contribution to US media coverage over the years”. During her editorship Essentially America has also won seven other major awards.
The Anglo-American husband and wife team of Paul Wade and Kathy Arnold are experts on the USA in general and New England and Florida in particular. They also write regularly about Canada. Among the awards that they have received are Outstanding Media Contribution to US Travel & Tourism, Best On-Line Feature Writer and Excellence in Newspaper Journalism Award from the Visit USA Association, and special awards from the Canadian Tourism Commission and Boston/New England for their outstanding writing.
Jennifer Logue has over 20 years of journalism and marketing communications experience. Her extensive communications background includes writing for a daily newspaper and serving as assistant editor of
Connection: New England's Journal of Higher Education and Economic Development. In that role, she was responsible not only for writing and editing education articles, but also editing and fact-checking the journal's annual directory of New England colleges and universities. Jennifer's marketing communications expertise includes managing editorial and public relations activities for a number of leading organizations, including public broadcasting leader WGBH, PBS's award-winning investigative journalism series,
Frontline, and the nationally syndicated public radio program
The World. From 2004 to 2006, she served as the founding executive director of Discover Quincy, managing all administrative and communications activities for the destination marketing organization. A graduate of American University with a degree in journalism, Jennifer has written hundreds of articles, op-eds and commentaries, and has edited numerous journals, newsletters and other publications. She is also an Adjunct Professor in the Communication Arts department at Eastern Nazarene College.
Neil Murray is the editor of several travel guides and is also deeply involved in every issue of Essentially America. A former journalist with the London Daily Mirror, he won the first prestigious Travel Industry Association Discover America Travel Writer (2008) for the best US Travel Destination article, The March of the Murals, which appeared in Essentially America the previous year.
Simon and Susan Veness are another Anglo-American husband and wife travel-writing team based alternately in Michigan and Florida and specialising in large parts of the USA. Simon serves as editor for two destination travel guides, and together they have written a number of guidebooks and contribute to a wide range of other media, including magazines and the Internet. They revel in their work and are among the most prolific travel writers in the world.
Kara Williams has worn many hats in her two-decade editorial career, including newspaper reporter, corporate copywriter and magazine editor. These days, she's a freelance travel writer, whose work has been published in a variety of online publications and American magazines. Kara makes her home in the Colorado Rockies with her husband and two young children. Kara has won writing awards from the Colorado Press Association as well as the Parenting Publications of America. Learn more about her at
www.karaswilliams.com.
Additionally, Phoenix International Publishing works regularly with many other top journalists in both the UK and USA, including Natasha Lee, Nick Dalton, Chris Coplans and Julie Moline.
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