Journalism

Honors

Jane Wooldridge has won many accolades for her writing, journalism, innovative ideas and leadership, including the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalist of the Year, a Knight Ridder Award of Excellence, Miami Herald "Smart Ideas" Award, Best Travel Section in its size category (Lowell Thomas Awards) and First Place/Feature Writing (Sunshine State Journalism Awards). At Duke University, she was named an Angier B. Duke Scholar.

Newspaper Journalism

In more than 25 years as a newspaper journalist, Jane Wooldridge has written about and/or edited coverage of business, news, community, travel and lifestyle. She has worked at The Miami Herald, The New York Times, The (Raleigh) News & Observer and The Virginian Pilot. She is often called on by The Miami Herald to cover major events.

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Wanderlust

When she's not traveling for business, Jane Wooldridge travels for herself. Her journeys - solo, with friends and with husband Stetson Glines and his three sons - have spanned six continents and 100 countries, in styles ranging from Five Stars to Under the Stars. An unlikely adventurer from a family of non travelers, her first solo trip abroad came at 26, when she traveled to Hong Kong and learned firsthand the true rule of Asian capitalism: Everything is negotiable. In an average year she flies 70,000 miles and has driven cross-country alone (Miami to Seattle, 28 days, 4997 miles). Favorite places include Ubud, Bali; Mali's Dogon Country; London; Portland, Ore.; and Virginia's Skyline Drive.

Her best trip ever: A three-week trip to South Africa. The first two weeks were spent on a $900 backpacker camping trip; the last week was spent at luxury resorts priced around $900 per day.

Travel Writing

Jane Wooldridge is a winner of the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalist of the Year award, travel journalism’s highest honor. She is co-author of the 2011 National Geographic book, The 100 Best Affordable Vacations to Enrich Your Life. Jane’s work has appeared in newspapers, magazines and websites throughout the English-speaking world, including the South China Morning Post, the Sydney Observer, The Seattle Times, Chicago Tribune, the Oregonian, AAA Westways and Budget Travel Online. For a decade she was the Travel Editor at the Miami Herald Media Company and a contributor to the McClatchy-Tribune wire. Whether she’s choosing stories for publication or writing herself, Jane sees her role as a knowledgeable advisor who seeks to fairly evaluate experiences for the traveler for whom they are intended – not according to personal preferences or promotional hype. Specialties include cruises, Latin America, Asia and adventure travel.

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Travel Photography

Jane Wooldridge's evocative writing is accompanied by her eye-catching photography from destinations spanning the globe.

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Editing

Jane Wooldridge provides strategic direction for the Miami Herald's business coverage on multiple platforms and edits stories that appear through the newspaper, including the Front Page. Previously she oversaw all Miami Herald Travel editorial products, including Sunday Travel, a seven-day week online travel section and WG (Weekend Getaways). During her career, she has edited articles in many genres and has created many new publications in print, online and in video.

Online Journalism

Jane Wooldridge was an online journalism pioneer and served as Executive Editor / Executive Producer of Destination Florida, a Knight-Ridder Tribune Joint Venture published in the mid-1990s on both AOL and on the World Wide Web. For a decade Jane led the Miami Herald’s seven-day online Travel section and wrote the popular blog, Travels with Jane. In 2006, with help from multimedia journalist Stephanie Rosenblatt, she blogged an award-winning cross-country trip “driven’’ by readers, who voted online daily to direct her path.

Broadcast Journalism

Jane Wooldridge is a popular TV guest who has appeared on The Today Show, The Travel Channel, My 33 (Miami), NBC-6 (Miami) and many radio shows, including Peter Greenberg Worldwide. She is host of Travel on Demand, broadcast on MiamiHerald.com and on Comcast’s “On Demand’’ channel in South Florida.

Public Speaking

Professional organizations and travel companies often turn to Jane Wooldridge as a panelist and speaker because of her humor and focused, articulate delivery. She has appeared at seminars arranged by the Society of American Travel Writers, the Travel Editors Council, Travel Classics Conference, Walt Disney World, Alaska Travel Industry Association, the University of Miami, Hyatt hotels and Ritz-Carlton. She speaks at community events including Rotary meetings, author chats at Books & Books and The Miami Book Fair.