Interview with Thomas Swick

Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 12.06.02 | 3:42 PM ET

Rolf Potts has posted an interview with one of America’s most thoughtful newspaper travel editors, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel’s Thomas Swick. “As an editor, I try to balance armchair stories with consumer pieces,” Swick says. “People need information, but they also desire narratives. And a section that’s nothing but tips and advice will attract only those people who travel, while there are a lot of people who don’t—for various reasons—but are nevertheless curious about the world.”