The world has changed in the last few decades. Of the areas i care about deeply, travel and long form journalism might be the areas of biggest change. How lucky am I, then, to get to spend this hour talking with Tim Cahill: a man who has had a front row seat in both categories.
We also talk about the recent changes at Outside Magazine. Earlier this year, after the sale of Outside to a company that is hoping to turn the brand into more of a tech company, 35 of Outside’s previous editors, writers and photographers sent a letter to the new ownership, asking to have their names removed from the masthead. Tim Cahill was one of the signatories, and he’ll tell us why in this episode. We’ll get to further unpack the difficulties of magazine publishing as a business in the current era, and talk about how travel has changed as well - questions like: was it the internet or smartphones that killed adventure travel?
