2006 Awards: Best Travel Media Story
We consume travel media every day--hell, we ARE travel media. Podcasts, newspaper columns, magazine articles, blogs, you name it. And of course that includes the New York Times, which we check regularly.While we were probably most jealous of Matt Gross (a.k.a. the Frugal Traveler) this year, we found Joe Sharkey's reporting from Brazil the most fascinating. Sharkey, a business travel writer for the Times, was caught in a mid-air plane collision over Brazil; his private plane landed without incident, while the large jet it collided with tragically crashed.
Mid-air collisions are rare as is. What were the chances that the Times' business travel reporter would be caught in one and live to tell about it? A harrowing experience for sure.
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