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Education
BA, Journalism, 1990
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Current Employment
1995-present Writer, Editor & Publisher

  • President
    Avid Travel Media – my company
  • Editor/Publisher
    The Avid Cruiser     – digital cruise magazine.
  • Editor/Publisher
    Cruise Observer     – quarterly print cruise newsletter. Published since 1996
  • Cruise Editor
    Hemispheres,     United Airlines’ in-flight magazine. I write (and have written) nearly all cruise-related articles, six or more per year, since 1995. In 2006, the North American Travel Journalists Association awarded my article second prize for best cruise writing (award was for 2005 article “Ship Shape”).
  • Correspondent
    Cruise & Ferry Info     – English-language magazine published in Sweden
Previous Employment

  • 2003-2004
    Editor
    Porthole Cruise Magazine
    PPI Group
    Fort Lauderdale, FL
    * left to launch my magazine, The Avid Cruiser
  • 2001
    Editor
    Cruise & Resort Magazine
    Sherman Oaks, CA
    * start up that never got off the ground due to events of 9/11
  • 1998
    Oral Historian
    Commissioned by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to conduct oral histories with Charles Kuralt’ friends, family and colleagues for the university’ Charles Kuralt Collection. Kuralt was an Emmy-winning CBS newsman. I produced two books about Kuralt afterward.
  • 1995
    Co-founder/Editor
    Cruise Week
    Launched and sold my interest to launch Cruise Observer
  • 1990-1995
    Managing Editor
    ASTA “ˆAgency Management
    Pace Communications
    Greensboro, North Carolina
  • 1985-1990
    Freelance newspaper writer and world traveler
Books
Posted on February 15, 2007 - by Ralph Grizzle

Opportunity Knocks

Our State

In this age of e-commerce and warehouse-size superstores, Luther Clegg is something of an anomaly. While the Greensboro-resident remains part of the retail revolution, the mechanism that drives his merchandise is not bottom-line pricing or the World Wide Web. It is a 1977 Buick. You see, Luther Clegg still peddles his wares the old-fashioned way: [...]

Posted on December 1, 2006 - by Ralph Grizzle

Hello Down There

Cruise Cruise & Ferry Info

Cruise line executives have long contended that they compete not against one another but against the larger vacation market. That argument, in fact, allowed Carnival Corporation to pass regulatory and antitrust hurdles in acquiring P&O Princess in 2002. In a story that is now well known throughout the industry, Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. was left [...]

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