NATJA Advisory Board
The Newport, Rhode Island Convention & Visitors Bureau is a non-profit company dedicated to the promotion of Newport County as a destination for business and leisure travel. The Newport CVB welcomes travel media visits and inquiries!
Kim Foley MacKinnon is currently the Daily Candy Kids Boston editor. She has written for the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Parents magazine, AAA Horizons, Italy magazine, and many other publications, as well as writing guidebooks. Travel, food and lifestyle writing are her specialties. Often, her own photos accompany her work.
She's the author of Boston Baby: A Field Guide for Urban Parents (2010) and Boston for Families (2004), among others.
Kim is the former listings & entertainment editor for the Boston Parents' Paper, where she won Parenting Publication of America awards for her work on food and travel.
Dan Schlossberg is the only American journalist who covers travel and baseball exclusively. Among his 35 baseball books are The 300 Club, Baseball Bits, Baseball Gold, and autobiographies of Ron Blomberg and Milo Hamilton. Co-founder of NATJA in 1991 and the organization's second president, he became president emeritus in August 2009. Dan is travel editor of Sirius XM Satellite Radio's Maggie Linton Show, New Jersey Lifestyle, and Hooters Magazine; senior contributor to the 'Travel With Kal' radio show in southeastern Connecticut; and freelance writer for many newspapers, websites, and magazines, including numerous AAA publications and inflights. The former AP newsman is a lifelong resident of Northern New Jersey.
For more than 25 years I have traveled the world capturing with words and photos, the essence of the places and adventures I have experienced. My award-winning stories and images have graced the pages of many magazines, books and brochures all over the world including Canadian Traveller, Caribbean Travel & Life, Coast To Coast, Geographical (UK), Highways, Interval World, Islands, National Geographic Traveler, Sport Diver, Traveller (UK) and Voyageur.
Although I specialize in adventure travel in North, South and Central America as well as the Caribbean, I have written and illustrated hundreds of travel articles and books on more than 60 countries.
Recent Awards:
2008 Seven NATJA Writing and Photography awards
2008 SATW Bill Muster Silver Portfolio Award
2007 Caribbean Tourism Organization's Photographer of the Year
2006 Caribbean Tourism Organization's Canadian Travel Writer of the Year
Broadcast journalist turned travel writer.
Travel columnist for Fracassa Communications and Avanti News Service.
Radio personality available for appearances on local radio and television.
Spokesperson for the Michigan Council of Hostelling Inernational.
Runner-up twice in the NATJA awards competition as "Best Travel Broadcast" in 2002 and 2004.
Voted 2006 overall favorite columnist by reader survey for Suburban Lifestyles.
Founder of Rochester Writers and the annual Rochester Writers' Conference.
Outlets
Travelworld Magazine
Columnist for the Macomb Observer
Columnist for the Oakland Observer
Columnist for the Metro Observer
Correspondent for "Talk That Rocks"
Hilton Moments Magazine
Draft Magazine
The Rant Shop
The American Senior Gazette Newspaper
The Beacon Newsletter
Correspondent for the "Doctor Franklin Radio Show"
Columnist for Suburban Lifestyles
Metropolitan Avenue Magazine
WSDS-AM 1480 "Travel & Adventure Radio" Host
WPON-AM 1460 "Travel & Adventure Radio" Host
WPON-AM 1460 "The Kevin Kelly Show" Co-Host
WPON-AM 1460 "The Michigan Music Show" Host
Vegetarian, live-music loving marketing and public relations professional. Would love to introduce you to the unexpected side of Cleveland Plus. Please come to me for story ideas, event calendars, photos, HD B-roll, fact verification, itineraries and media visits . . . Follow me on Twitter: @flee2thecleve or friend me on Facebook (Sam Fryberger).
Jeffrey is host and producer of the “Weekend Explorer” travel series. At just 14, a visit with relatives became a summer long odyssey traveling Western Europe…alone! In high school, he participated in an exchange program to New Zealand, including exploring Australia and Hawaii. As a college student, intuition helped him escape the Tiananmen Square crackdown. Always the entrepreneur, as a junior at the University of California San Diego, he purchased and ran a mid-sized travel agency. Following college, Lehmann engineered new energy technologies for General Atomics by day, learned TV production at night—launching the award winning “Weekend Explorer” series in 1999 and earning an Emmy for “Performance as Host” in 2000. “Weekend Explorer” airs on commercial stations across the nation, in more than two-dozen countries, in-flight on Delta, and is provided free airing on more than 210 PBS stations. He is an early adapter of technology, preceding the birth of the internet.
Mr. Rottenberg is a widely recognized writer and photographer. He brings a broad professional and business background to his tasks. His past activities include managing companies and operating restaurants. He practiced law for many years in Los Angeles and San Diego in both state and federal courts as a business and litigation attorney. He now publishes Dining San Diego Magazine. He is also currently licensed as a real estate broker, securities broker, and investment advisor. His writings reflect the broad scope of his interests and experiences.
NATJA Administrative Staff
I grew up in a very large family and experienced first-hand the importance of understanding peoples' needs and then having to organize the available resources to meet those needs. I have made my life's work bringing resources to communities so their goals can be better met.
One of the many joys of my life has been traveling. I have visited five of our seven continents (still need to get to Australia and Antarctica), found friends throughout the world and have thoroughly enjoyed the journeys. I am so pleased now to have the opportunity to work for the NATJA community of writers, photographers and organizations and develop the resources for community members to grow their careers and follow their dreams. It's a wonderful new horizon for me and a promising challenge. I look forward to working with each of you.
I was introduced to serious photography by an old pro who specialized in classic B&W images. He had me study Weston, Adams, Cartier-Bresson, Gene Smith and many others. It's a journey, not a destination. I have been fortunate to be able to travel most of my adult life and have enjoyed reading about travelers' experiences for as long as I can remember: The Owl and the Pussycat, Zorba the Greek, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, The Old Patagonia Express, Travels with Charley to name a very few. My writing has been a bit more introspective than many travel journalists and I hesitate to impose my musings on a reader, but I love it when the opportunity arrives that allows me to put thoughts and visions together in a piece that seems appropriate for publication.
I'm co-owner of Newman Grace Inc. which is an advertising, marketing and graphic design firm in Woodland Hills, California.
I'm the publisher of Travelworld International Magazine for NATJA.
In addition, I'm co-owner of HMH Media Inc. As editor-in-chief and co-publisher of "Inside Latino Entertainment & Media Magazine," I oversee all aspects of the daily running of the quarterly English-language publication.
Brian Hemsworth began his journalistic endeavors back in college, stringing for a motorcycle magazine while attending San Diego State University. He interned for PM Magazine, where he worked on video travel stories.
After college he began working for Grey Advertising, cutting his teeth on accounts such as Princess Cruises. By the mid-1980s he moved on to working full-time as a writer. Specializing in adventure travel, he wrote for U.S. and European magazines on topics such as windsurfing in Puerto Rico, riding bicycles down volcanoes in Hawaii, and heli-hiking in Canada. He eventually became a group editorial director at a California-based publishing company.
Brian moved on to the marketing side of publishing, but still wrote for various magazines, mostly on business issues. He received his MBA from California Lutheran University, and launched his own marketing consulting firm, Newman Grace. He has authored more than 100 features in dozens of publication, has a dozen magazine covers to his credit, and won a National Booksellers Award for one of his cover designs.
Today Brian is consults with a wide variety of brands and companies, and writes both business and travel features for a variety of magazines. He is a member of the adjunct faculty at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. He is an avid traveler, adventurer, cyclist, and author, and currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife, daughter, dogs Max and Ruby, and their cat Maui.
