Alastair McKenzie
Sorry Adrian, but isn't this the very definition of the bland junk that outbounding set out to eschew?
Very diplomatic, Ethan. Your next mission, should you choose to accept it, Syria. :)
There's nothing wrong with the piece. It's very useful, but it looks and sounds like a piece of commercial content.
There's nothing wrong, for example, with press release puffer pieces, either. Hell, I've just re-written one about Starbucks launching a catering car on Swiss Railways. Interesting, quirky... but here's the point; I wouldn't dream of submitting it to a peer review site whose sole purpose is to promote travel writing/media excellence.
On 'timeliness', I deliberately posted some old articles because I was told to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXfZQxZvurM&feature=share&t=21m34s
I like this because it is detailed, useful, carefully balanced where it needs to be, and hard-hitting where it doesn't.
Ooh, I was just trying to post this and discovered someone got here first.... by a couple of years! Good story, great revelation, and lots of detail.
This is an old post but I'm submitting this as a good example of responsible journalism. When parts of Istanbul were engulfed in riots back in June, Natalie took it upon herself to go out and show how the rest of the country (or some of it) was unaffected. I was really impressed. Good work.