The Travel desk has some workers updates to share.
36 Hours, one in all the signature columns on the Travel desk has a brand new editor: Betsy Blumenthal, who joins The Times from Chase Travel, the Travel vertical of JPMorganChase, which she helped to launch in 2023. There, she wrote and edited journey guides to spots like Paris and Miami, did every little thing from sourcing images to factchecking, and helped develop an annual “Trips to Take” checklist.
Before that position, Betsy spent greater than seven years at Condé Nast Traveler, engaged on each the journal and its digital platform, beginning as an assistant editor and dealing her means as much as the editor for options and editorial franchises. At Traveler she developed an intensive checklist of freelancers, together with many from past the realm of journey. She additionally helped to relaunch its web site’s City Guides vertical, and led the growth of its “Bright Ideas in Travel” checklist about improvements in the trade.
She brings an important sense of visuals, deep information of journey and a ardour for serving readers. She can also be a longtime member of the Times household: Her father, Mitch Blumenthal, spent greater than 20 years at The Times, working in Metro, National and the Washington bureau