Travel Channel Academy HQ just up the street at 41st between 7th and 8th
This week, we are once again running the Travel Channel Academy in New York.
For more than 2 years, we have been partnering with The City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Their building is in the former Herald Tribune building, on Times Square, right next door to The New York Times.
As a result, we are located right in the beating heart of New York.
This week, we have 42 aspiring TJs, or Travel Journalists, who have signed up for the 4-day course.
While we have a smattering of New Yorkers, including a Rockette(!), the vast majority of folks who are attending have come from all over the country to take the course.
When we first started the Academy idea, we thought that the classes would be largely filled with 23 year olds who wanted to be the next Samantha Brown.
Two years in, the demographics are very different.
In this course we have lawyers (a far number), financial investment people, doctors, a marine biologist, a neurochemist and lots of other folks.
It’s pretty surprising, but bodes will for the kind of content, and the much broader range, that the class will go on to produce.
This morning, Pat Younge, President and GM for The Travel Channel is skyping into the class for a Q&A.
After that, we’re going to release 42 cameras onto the streets of New York.
This evening, we’ll screen 42 stories.
Can’t wait.
