Pitching Insights with Travel Editor Ashlea Halpern

On the podcast today, we bring you a conversation we had in our membership, The Circle. Inside our membership, we run weekly check-ins, monthly brainstorm meetings, workshops, and more to help our members publish their travel stories. Occasionally, we invite wonderful people from inside the travel media industry to share their knowledge with us. In this episode, we bring you an excerpt from a workshop we recently held with Ashlea Halpern, a veteran travel editor who's worked at publications like AFAR, Condé Nast Traveler, Bon Appétit and more. In this episode, Ashlea provides knowledgeable insight into the publication hierarchy, how pitch meetings work, and some of the common reasons pitches get rejected. We discuss the importance of subject lines on story pitches, why you should acknowledge other stories written on the same topic as yours, and how to make the editor’s job easier to ensure your success. Our members also had a chance to ask Ashlea all of their questions about working with travel editors. I love the community inside The Circle and hope today's episode gives you a bit of that same sense of community and support. If you're interested in joining us inside The Circle, there are three different levels available for you to join and start working toward getting your own travel stories published. By the way, all of our workshops are recorded, so when you join, you get access to the entire conversation with Ashlea. To learn more about The Circle, go to travelmedialab.com/circle.