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WELCOME
elcome to the premiere edition of Wine Dine
& Travel magazine - written and published
by veteran professional journalists who have
RON JAMES Wa passion for travel and great food. Our goal
publisher/executive editor is to enlighten and entertain readers and travelers who delight in
exploring our planet.
Ron James is the "wine and food guy." WD&T is a logical extension of our award-winning-regional online
He is an award-winning veteran food magazine Wine & Dine San Diego. We will continue to cover Southern
and wine journalist., television producer California and the West Coast, but have extended our editorial hori-
and radio personality. He began his zons globally.
journalism career in 1973 and pio-
neered online media beginning in 1994 WD&T will publish quarterly, mainly because everyone involved in this
with the first major online city publica- project travels – a lot. So two months travel and one month produc-
tion seems quite civilized to us. The website, www.winedineandtravel.
tion, San Diego Magazine. He helped com, however, will be updated regularly with real-time coverage of
found Time Warner's Road Runner
network and led the San Diego Union- our travel and culinary adven-
Tribune's online editorial efforts for tures.
nearly a decade. The native Californian's Our magazine is free on all
nationally syndicated wine and food platforms through our online
columns have appeared in newspapers distribution partners. There are
and magazines around the world. also special free apps for iPad
and iPhone. But for many, print is
He is passionate about great wine and
food and enthusiastically enjoys them still the gold standard. Our tech-
nology partner MagCloud offers
every day!
an innovative print process that
delivers our readers a glossy,
MARY JAMES perfect-bound magazine - just
like the ones on newsstands.
publisher/editor We feel this broad distribution
strategy serves our readers best
Mary Hellman James is an award- for this time of sweeping tech-
winning San Diego journalist and nological and social change.
editor. After a 29-year-career with the
San Diego Union-Tribune, including 13 In the end, neither technology nor distribution will make us success-
years as Home and Garden editor, James ful. Readers will buy the magazine or read the digital version because
currently is a freelance garden writer of the quality of the stories and features. We couldn’t deliver that
and a columnist for San Diego Home- without our great contributors – friends and journalistic colleagues
Garden/Lifestyles magazine. She also is who are award-winning, experienced and expert travel, food and wine
executive editor of California Garden, the writers. (Learn more about them all on the next page.)
award-winning 102-year-old magazine We hope you enjoy our new magazine and will consider it to be a
published by the San Diego Floral As- valued resource in planning your journeys. Like travel, publishing is an
sociation. She and her husband, Ron adventure - and we hope you enjoy the ride as much as we do.
James, travel extensively. Upcoming this
year is a Canada - New England -- New
York cruise and a five-week stay in India Ron & Mary James
and Nepal.
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