Rudy Maxa | |
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| Born | 1949 (age 75–76) |
| Occupation(s) | Travel expert Television personality |
Rudy Maxa (born 1949) is an American consumer travel expert. [1]
Maxa is the host and executive producer of 98 half-hour travel television episodes featuring the world's great destinations that are broadcast on public television in the U.S. with titles such as Smart Travels: Europe with Rudy Maxa, [2] Smart Travels: Pacific Rim with Rudy Maxa, [3] and—since 2008—Rudy Maxa's World. [4]
Maxa began his career in journalism after graduating from Ohio University [5] as an investigative reporter, magazine writer, and personalities columnist at The Washington Post .
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 city magazine Washingtonian (1983–92), and also worked as the Washington bureau chief of Spy magazine (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," the "Today Show," "Good Morning America," the "Sally Jesse Raphael Show" and other national talk shows. He was a contributing editor with National Geographic Traveler magazine for 17 years and writes (or has written for) magazines including Vogue, People, Worth, Men's Life, Self, Playboy, Modern Maturity, GQ, USA Today, Travel & Leisure, the London Daily Mailm Penthouse, Forbes, and several airline magazines. He was a columnist and contributor to ABC.com, MSNBC.com and other websites and frequent guest on travel topics on CNN, MSNBC-TV, and other national television talk shows.
He is the author of two nonfiction books, Dare To Be Great (1976) [7] and Public Trust, Private Lust (1977).
He wrote for the ABC-TV drama series Capital News and for several years hosted a Saturday-morning radio talk show on political issues for WRC-AM, Washington, D.C. Since 2009, he's produced and co-hosted the national syndicated travel show, "RM World Travel," that 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] Maxa lives in St. Paul, Minnesota. He has a daughter and a son, Alex Maxa, who runs Gillibus, a vintage bus rental service in San Francisco. [9] [10]
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