R.I.P. Orlando Sentinel Travel?
Travel Blog • Terry Ward • 12.07.05 | 4:18 PM ET
It looks as though the Orlando Sentinel Travel section is history. The Orlando Weekly reports today that the Sentinel cut 54 jobs last week, including that of travel editor Jay Boyar, a 22-year veteran of the paper. Boyar told the Weekly that the Sentinel plans to include travel coverage in a feature section. He’s still in shock. “I feel a sense of panic,” he told the paper. “I have an 11-year-old son and I would like him to have medical insurance.”
The Sentinel is owned by Tribune Co., which recently announced cutbacks at other papers, too. (We noted earlier this week the death of the Los Angeles Times Outdoors section.) It appears to be a bad time for Tribune features.
Before Boyar took over the Travel section a year ago, I wrote an occasional series for the section called “Going Global” about young travelers abroad. But Boyar seemed to prefer domestic stories and the occasional series became occasion-less. Still, I’m sad to see the section go. It’s one less outlet for travel writers. Hopefully the Sentinel will publish a fair amount of travel coverage in its feature section. We’ll see what 2006 brings.
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Terry Ward is a Florida-based writer and a long-time contributor to World Hum.
