Lark Gould on Muck Rack

Lark Gould

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  • Writer and Editor, Freelance
  • Founder and Editor, Travel-Intel
  • None, Freelance, Travel-Intel
  • None, BUSINESS TRAVELER USA ONLINE, BUSINESS TRAVELER USA
Los Angeles
Covers:  Ongoing trends in travel, hospitality, airlines, travel economics, travel technology, destinations, tours. Often do soft reviews for publications as well as analysis and perspectives.
Doesn't Cover: As a journalist I have developed a speciality in travel over the years but have hard core training in news and much experience in local trend spotting and nuanced cultural shifts.

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Lark Gould’s Biography

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Lark Gould is a career journalist who started out in wire services and metro dailies and eventually segued to covering the travel industry. She spent much of her early career overseas covering wars, famines and cultural conundrums in the Horn of Africa and the Middle East for such publications as the Christian Science Monitor, Reuters, AP, Aramco Magazine and the Boston Globe concentrating her time in Somalia, Ethiopia and North Yemen.

Among her deep dives were such topics as Poetry in Somalia…

What was your first job as a journalist?

United Press International statehouse bureau reporter in Providence, Rhode Island

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Had a Hermes Rocket and one of first portable electrics decades before the first Harris Tubes. Even had a Tandy TRS w "cuplers."

How is social media changing news?

It is basically upending journalism as we know it, ending what has been the focused, trained observation of events with a neutral eye.