EWNS editor David DeVoss began his journalism career as the youngest staff correspondent ever hired by the Time-Life News Service, becoming at age 24 a war correspondent in Saigon. He later worked as a correspondent and Bureau Chief in Houston, Montreal, Detroit, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Mexico City and Los Angeles.
In 1985, he joined the Los Angeles Times Magazine, where he won three national writing awards in four years. In 1998, after 30 years in journalism, DeVoss entered the field of international development, where – among other assignments in Bosnia, Afghanistan and East Timor – he served as the Senior Information Officer for the U.S. Agency for International Development in Iraq.
On four occasions during the 2000s, DeVoss received the Best Magazine Story of the Year Gold Award from the Society of American Travel Writers for work appearing in Smithsonian. In 2019, he won Gold Prizes for international travel writing from both SATW and the North American Travel Journalists Association for reporting on Rwanda. His photo essay on Afghanistan Beyond the Hindu Kush received a Silver Medal from SATW in 2022. EWNS contributors also include:
Liz Campbell is a former resident of Burma, India, Tanzania, Brazil and the UK. In 2021 and 2022 the Travel Media Association of Canada honored her for Best Photography and Best Historic and Cultural Feature Writing. Campbell also won two SATW editorial awards in 2022 for EWNS stories on Newfoundland and Costa Rica.
Peter Greenberg is the Emmy-winning Travel Editor for CBS News, whose CBS Eye on Travel radio program broadcasts from a different location around the world each week. Peter also hosts the Travel Detective show on PBS.
Mark Orwoll is the former International Editor of Travel + Leisure magazine. His accolades include a 2021 Gold Award in Adventure Travel Writing from the North American Travel Journalists Association and a 2022 SATW Silver Award for food & travel reporting.
Karin Leperi Pezo recently won a Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Silver Award for her EWNS feature, Living in the Land of New Mexico Chiles.
John Poimiroo, editor of CaliforniaFallColor.com this year received two California Outdoor Writers Association Excellence in Craft awards for EWNS stories on cycling in Ireland.
Nancy Wigston won First Prizes in International Travel Writing (2018) and People Photography (2020) from the Society of American Travel Writers.
