Traveling in New England during the month of October is a personal joy. I’m sure that goes for a lot of people. But one particular trip in the Fall of last year put an extra skip in my step. I was being asked to attend my first NATJA advisory board meeting in Newport, Rhode Island. I was to outline my future plans for this magazine. This magazine being your magazine.

Having started my own graphic design and marketing company in 1996, I was well on my way to realizing a dream that I’ve had for some time. As a typesetter, production artist and graphic designer, I’ve had the privelege to work on and help design publications such as Outdoor Photographer, Golf Tips, Plane & Pilot, Active Outlook, and Southern California Physician. I’ve worked with publishers who loved to showcase the talent of their writers and photographers. I’ve also worked with publishers who didn’t care. I very much preferred the “showcasers.”

­That was when I realized that the training and skills of my early career had prepared me to actually design and publish my own publications one day.­­­­ My true love of magazine publishing had been born.

I was able to ­realize my dream in the last months of 2007 when Inside Latino Entertainment and Media Magazine was launched. As Editor-in-Chief and Co-­Publisher, I ­­oversee the day-t0-day operations and editorial of this quarterly magazine. As a publisher, I have the enormous freedom to showcase the editorial in a way that makes not only the subject proud, but myself and the many readers of the magazine.

Now, I have the amazing honor to revamp and publish Travelworld International Magazine for you. As the talented writers, photographers, and members of NATJA, you deserve a publication to properly showcase your talents and travels. Through you, readers of your articles are transported through your eyes to destinations they’ve only dreamed of going. My job is to make that journey an enjoyable one. One that makes you proud. One that makes NATJA proud. And one that makes the readers proud.

I look forward to showcasing your work and talent. I look forward to making you proud.

Jerri
Jerri Hemsworth
Publisher
jerrih@natja.org