Rudy Maxa (born 1949) is an American consumer travel expert.[1] He is the host and executive producer of 98 half-hour travel television episodes featuring great destinations around the world. They are broadcast on public television in the U.S.; some of them are Smart Travels: Europe with Rudy Maxa,[2] Smart Travels: Pacific Rim with Rudy Maxa,[3] and—since 2008—Rudy Maxa's World.[4]
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| Born | 1949 (age 76–77) |
| Occupations | Travel expert Television personality |
Career
editMaxa began his career in journalism at the Washington Post as an investigative reporter, magazine writer, and personalities columnist, after graduating from Ohio University in Athens.[5] His reporting on a Capitol Hill sex scandal and the resulting changes in congressional rules was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and he received the John Hancock Award for Excellence in Business and Financial Journalism for a series of stories on an international Ponzi scheme.[6]
He left the Post to become a senior editor at the Washingtonian (1983–92,) a magazine, and worked as the Washington bureau chief of a satirical magazine, Spy (1992–94) and did weekly commentary for the Canadian morning show Canada AM. He was also a frequent guest on political topics for The Geraldo Rivera Show, Today, Good Morning America, Sally Jessy Raphael, and other national talk shows. He was a contributing editor with National Geographic Traveler magazine for 17 years and has wirtten for Vogue, People, Worth, Men's Life, Self, Playboy, Modern Maturity, GQ, USA Today, Travel & Leisure, Daily Mail, Penthouse, Forbes, and several airline magazines. He was a columnist and contributor to ABC.com, MSNBC.com and other websites and has been a guest on CNN, MSNBC-TV, and other national television talk shows talking about travel. He is the author of two nonfiction books, Dare To Be Great (1976)[7] and Public Trust, Private Lust (1977).
He wrote for the Capital News a drama series on ABC and for several years hosted a Saturday-morning radio talk show on political issues for WRC in Washington, D.C.. Since 2009, he's produced and co-hosted the national syndicated travel show, "RM World Travel," which is broadcast weekly on more than 620 news/talk radio stations. Maxa attributes his desire to travel partly to the fact he grew up as a military brat.[8] He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota. He has a daughter and a son, Alex, who runs Gillibus, a vintage bus rental service in San Francisco.[9][10]
References
edit- ↑ "International travel: Rudy Maxa". USA Today.
- ↑ "Smart Travels--Europe with Rudy Maxa". PBS. Retrieved May 31, 2022.
- ↑ "Smart Travels Pacific Rim with Rudy Maxa: Shanghai / Hong Kong". Small World Productions; Inc. March 6, 2018. Retrieved May 31, 2022.
- ↑ "Rudy Maxa's World high definition travel series TV". Rudy Maxa's World. Retrieved May 31, 2022.
- ↑ "Popular Travel Show Host And Ohio University Alumnus Rudy Maxa Visits WOUB". WOUB Public Media. April 29, 2014. Retrieved May 31, 2022.
- ↑ "Who is Rudy Maxa?". Rudy Maxa's Tours. Retrieved May 31, 2022.
- ↑ "Dare to be Great by Maxa, Rudy: Hardcover (1977) First edition. First printing [stated]., Signed by Author(s) | Ground Zero Books, Ltd". www.abebooks.co.uk. Retrieved May 31, 2022.
- ↑ Podcast interview with Rudy Maxa for "Every Brat has a Story." Archived 2006-06-21 at the Wayback Machine Accessed January 27, 2007.
- ↑ "SF's 6 craziest rentable party buses". April 21, 2014.
- ↑ "The road to election night on the Gillibus".