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EMMY AWARD-WINNING WRITER/LIFESTYLE TV CORRESPONDENT/HOST & PRODUCER/EDITOR
I'm a 3-time Emmy award-winning writer & national TV correspondent/host. My publishing credits include: The New Yorker, Travel + Leisure, Town & Country, US Airways, Delta Sky, NY Daily News & abcnews.com.
I'm the author of TRAVEL THERAPY: Where do you need to go? and creator and editor of www.traveltherapytrips.com.
Since 2009, I've been hosting a nat'l TV lifestyle show on ABC NEWS & traveling around the world shooting, reporting & producing special spotlight original travel videos for the show. I also freelance for WPIX-TV as a lifestyle and entertainment correspondent.
With close to 6000 Twitter followers & hundreds of Facebook "fans", I'm social media savvy, cross promoting all my work using SEO content.
You can find some of my writing clips here on Mediabistro and you can watch my TV segments at:
http://traveltherapytrips.com/press-2/
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(ABC News, 2/1/2010)
I've spent the last two years freelancing for ABC News as a national lifestyle/travel TV host and special correspondent for the half-hour show TRAVEL NOW. Before the show started, between 2008-2010, I did online travel features and slideshows for abcnews.com and was a regular on-air "travel expert" o
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(Seal Press)
The TRAVEL THERAPY book by Emmy Award Winning Writer Karen Schaler features more than 100 destinations worldwide based on what you're going through in life. Stressed out? Going through a breakup or divorce? Looking to reinvent yourself or Pay it Forward? TRAVEL THERAPY can help you find your way!
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(The New Yorker)
This is the exclusive piece I wrote as a freelancer and then sold to The New Yorker about how the military provides FREE cosmetic surgery to soldiers and their spouses including breast implants, liposuction, face lifts, tummy tucks, etc.
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Feature Writing Clips |
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(Travel + Leisure, 11/15/2009)
This online travel features for Travel + Leisure also included a 11 picture slide show.
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(Singapore Airlines Magazine, 11/1/2009)
This is a six page travel feature I did for Singapore Airlines Magazine featuring my Travel Therapy book and the Travel Therapy concept.
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(New York Daily News, 8/12/2009)
Travel feature for New York Daily News online about some top travel specials and freebies!
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(New York Daily News, 7/28/2009)
I wrote and provided my own exclusive photographs for a New York Daily News online TOP TEN list slide show travel feature.
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(ABC News, 6/30/2009)
I produced and hosted this national 7 minute travel segment for ABC NEWS.
For more of my ABC News travel segments that I hosted and produced go to:
www.traveltherapytrips.com/press-2
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(Gafencu Luxury Magazine ( China))
This is one of the six page travel features I've done for a luxury lifestyle magazine based in China.
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(Gafencu Magazine ( China))
This is a 6 page travel feature I did about top resort butlers from around the globe for a luxury lifestyle magazine in China that I regularly contribute to.
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(US Airways Circulation 2 Million)
Feature on Vera Wang
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(US Airways 2 Million Circulation)
Feature story on Donald Trump
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Feature story on Senator John McCain
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(ABCNEWS.COM)
Top places to visit in Switzerland plus tips on affordable travel
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(ABCNEWS.COM)
Travel Feature plus photographs for ABCNEWS.COM highlighting the best of the British Virgin Islands: Sailing Seven Islands in Seven Days.
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This is the TRAVEL THERAPY website I created and update daily with the latest travel news(when I'm not traveling outside the country). This site features destinations around the world, fantastic photography and insider information about the best travel deals and opportunities.
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(Town & Country TRAVEL)
Feaure story for Town and Country TRAVEL on a chic new jungle spa in Belize.
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(ABCNEWS.COM)
All travel features I freelance for abcnews.com I enterprise the story and often do the photography.
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(ABCNEWS.COM)
At your service! Feature for abcnews.com on the growing trend of having over the top butler service when you travel
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(ABCNEWS.COM)
Feature on abcnews.com looking at the top places where celebrities vacation.
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(ABCNEWS.COM)
Copy and photos provided for a travel feature on abcnews.com highlighting the best safari vacations in Africa.
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(ABCNEWS.COM)
Feature travel piece covering volunteer vacations in Africa and around the world.
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(ABCNEWS.COM)
A Travel feature (more than 2,000 words) that I freelanced and sold to ABCNEWS.COM featuring the Uncrowded Caribbean-I also took all 12 photos and provided them exclusively
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Magazine Cover Stories |
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(U.S. Airways In-Flight)
This is one of seven travel cover stories I did for national in-flight magazines working as a freelance writer. I also sold an additional 100 plus articles to the magazines covering everything from lifestyle to celebrity news.
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Photography Work |
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(www.traveltherapytrips.com)
Photograph by Travel Writer Karen Schaler.
It's all crystal clear in the Caribbean. Just one of the photos on the TRAVEL THERAPY website I've created and update daily with the latest travel news.
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Photograph by Travel Writer: Karen Schaler, taken during a food distribution in a remote village in Malawi, Africa.
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Photographs by Travel Writer: Karen Schaler
For more photos check out the TRAVEL THERAPY book coming out spring 2009!
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Photographs by Travel Writer: Karen Schaler
For more photos check out my website at www.traveltherapytrips.com
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Photographs by Travel Writer: Karen Schaler
For more photos check out the TRAVEL THERAPY book coming out spring 2009!
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| Work Info |
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Expertise |
| Correspondent |
15 Years |
| Reporter |
15 Years |
| Writer |
15 Years |
Specialty |
| Lifestyle |
10 Years |
| Travel |
10 Years |
| Women's Issues |
10 Years |
Total Media Industry Experience
15 Years |
Media Client List (# assignments
last 2 yrs)
US Airways Inflight Magazine (11+), ABC News (11+), FOX NEWS (11+), ABC Travel Now (11+), Abcnews.com (11+), WPIX-TV (11+), Huffington Post (6-10), New York Daily News (3-5), Travel + Leisure Magazine & Online (3-5), The New Yorker (1-2), Town & Country TRAVELER (1-2), Delta Sky Magazine (1-2) |
Corporate Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)
ABC News ( National) (11+), ABC News Now Travel Show (Nat'l) (11+), Abcnews.com (11+), Gafencu Chinese Men's Magazine (11+), US Airways Magazine (11+), WPIX-TV (11+), Travelandleisure.com (6-10), Nydailynews.com (6-10), Singapore Airlines Magazine (1-2) |
Other Work History
Author-TRAVEL THERAPY ( April 2009)
Creator Website/Blog www.traveltherapytrips.com www.traveltherapytrips.com
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Computer Skills
Word, Photoshop, Some HTML, Windows XP, MAC, Adobe Premier, Final Cut, Viz Graphics, Final Draft, |
Technical Skills
Some web design, daily blogging, photo editing, shooting video, producing |
Equipment
Laptop, Nikon Digital Camera, Canon HD Camcorder |
References
Lee Alexander-Producer
ABC News Now
Scott Cohen
Executive Editor NY Daily News
Jim McGinnis-CNN
Executive Producer Lou Dobbs Tonight
Mark Berryhill
Former TV News Director WHDH-TV Boston
Vice President Programming & Creative Affairs
Better TV/Parent TV
Meredith Video Solutions
Bob Sullivan-KNXV-TV
Former News Director
Denise Naughton KNXV-TV
Producer
Marybeth Jacoby-KDFW-TV
Former Executive Producer
*CONTACT INFORMATION AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST
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Awards
3 Emmy Awards for TV Reporting/Writing/Blogging |
Associations
RTNDA, SPJ, WGA |
Other
I'm an Emmy award-winning TV, print and online freelance writer with more than a decade of national on-air hosting and TV correspondent experience so I can cross promote my work as an on-air expert and have appeared live on Good Morning America, Today, Fox & Friends, etc. I currenetly specialize in covering lifestyle news including travel, food, fashion, women's issues and celebrity and entertainment. I can produce everything from traditional print features to online slideshows and original video content. I've also worked as a spokesperson and keynote public speaker and as a freelancer I'm always looking for new opportunities.
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Freelancer Availability
I freelance full-time. I am willing to travel anywhere. I have a driver's license. |
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