Michael Yessis

Michael is the co-founder and co-editor of Travel Channel Media’s World Hum. Jim Benning and he launched World Hum in 2001, combining a literary approach to travel writing with the power and versatility of new media to create a pioneering travel website. Their blog was among the first travel blogs on the internet, and many of their stories have been honored with Lowell Thomas Awards by the Society of American Travel Writers. More than a dozen World Hum stories have been featured in the Best American Travel Writing anthologies. Since the Travel Channel acquired the site in 2007, he has continued his role in developing the vision and direction of the site. World Hum’s traffic has doubled in each of the last two years. They are currently developing plans to expand World Hum into other platforms. Before joining the Travel Channel, he worked as an editor at several magazines and websites. He was the Destinations Editor at USAToday.com, and the Editor in Chief of Texas and New Mexico Journey Magazines. During the dotcom boom, he wrote and edited for several websites in the San Francisco Bay area and in Los Angeles. Before that, he worked as an editor at Men’s Fitness magazine and covered sports for the Santa Monica Outlook and Daily Breeze newspapers.

Visit Michael Yessis on the web at: http://michaelyessis.net/

Michael Yessis contributes to the following category:

• Independent Travel

The Last 10 Posts by Michael:

• Highway 29, Virginia, (10 Dec 2012)
• The Red Balloon meets Whole Foods Parking Lot, (05 Mar 2012)
• All Together Now, (07 Dec 2011)
• Cambridge, Massachusetts, (26 Sep 2011)
• ‘The Art of Google Books’, (21 Sep 2011)
• The Promise of Boutique Electronic Publishing, (16 Sep 2011)
• Forest Park, Illinois, (14 Sep 2011)
• Is the ‘Madness’ of Travel in our DNA?, (07 Sep 2011)
• Erie County, Ohio, (29 Aug 2011)
• ‘They’ve Just Done Something Together That They Could Never Have Done on Their Own,’ Continued, (18 Aug 2011)

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