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Maxaâs latest addition to his "Rudy Maxaâs World" series is four episodes on Japan â showcasing the country as viewers have never seen it. He is well known as public radioâs âThe Savvy Travelerâ and an award-winning contributing editor with National Geographic Traveler magazine. As a Washington Post reporter, he won the John Hancock Award for excellence in Business and Financial Journalism for a series of stories on an international Ponzi scheme.
He is also a contributing editor with Delta Air Lines’ in-flight magazine, Sky.
Maxa’s travel articles have also appeared in the Washington Post, Forbes, GQ, Travel & Leisure, the Los Angeles Times, Ocean Drive, Self, WORTH and dozens of other major publications around the world.
Maxa's articles have appeared frequently in GQ, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, US Air Magazine, Playboy and dozens of other magazines and newspapers around the world.
Career
Maxa is the host and executive producer of 85 half-hour travel shows on the world"s great destinations that are broadcast on public television in the United States.
He has also been a frequent guest on national talk shows, such as "Geraldo," "The Montel Williams Show," and others. He has written regular, weekly columns for ABCNews.com, American Express’ web site and MSNBC.com. His alma mater, Ohio University, gave Maxa the L.J. Hortin âDistinguished Alumnus Awardâ in 2002.
Maxa lives in St.
Paul, Minnesota, is the father of a grown son and daughter, and is a doting grandfather.
Rudy Maxa, a Washington-based journalist for more than two decades, was an investigative reporter and personalities columnist with the Washington Post for 13 years and a senior writer and columnist with the Washingtonian for nine years.
He served as Washington Bureau Chief for Spy magazine for two years.
As of April 2004, Maxa was living in Washington, D.C. He has two children.
Maxa is a contributing editor to National Geographic Traveler where he’s received two, bronze Lowell Thomas Awards for Best Magazine Article on Foreign Travel from the Society of American Travel Writer’s Foundation.
His monthly "Letter From Washington" in Ocean Drive magazine won first place as "best regular column" by the Florida Magazine Association. After 13 years as a Washington Post investigative reporter and personalities columnist, Maxa worked nine years as a senior writer with the city magazine, Washingtonian, before becoming Washington bureau chief of SPY magazine for two years.
In addition, Maxa hosts America"s most widely syndicated radio travel show, a two-hour weekend show also called Rudy Maxa"s World.
Maxa also hosts a series of public television shows, also called Rudy Maxa’s World, that are broadcast throughout North America on local PBS stations as well as in the United Kingdom, Russia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and India on Travel Channel International.
And he’s a frequent guest on CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, CNNfn, Fox News Channel, The View, The World and other radio and television shows.
A journalist by training, Maxa was a columnist and reporter for 13 years with the Washington Post, a senior writer and columnist for nine years with Washingtonian magazine, and Washington bureau chief of SPY for two years.
His reporting on a Capitol Hill sex scandal and the resulting changes in congressional rules was nominated for the 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.
Rudy Maxa
Today, Maxa hosts the #1 weekend travel/talk radio show in the United States.
His television episodes also air in 121 countries in 22 different languages on Travel Channel International.
Rudy Maxa has an irresistible personality composed of a special mix of wit, vibrance, brains, irreverence and sympathy, all combined with a zest for living well... “Rudy Maxa’s World,” the radio show, and his Monday-Friday one-minute travel commentary have a weekly audience reach of approximately 1.4 million upscale leisure & business travelers via 230+ radio stations, TuneIn.com, active social media platforms, online streaming and more.
His “Marketplace” appearances led to the creation of a one-hour, weekend radio magazine show, “The Savvy Traveler,” that Maxa co-created and hosted from its inception in 1997 until the summer of 2001.