EcoReport editor and writer Evelyn Kanter is an experienced and award-winning journalist who has been focusing on the environment and consumer rights since long before it was fashionable. My background includes magazine and newspaper writer and photographer, radio and television news producer and reporter, guidebook author and editor, and, now, author and editor of apps for the iPhone, iPad, iTouch and other handheld devices.
Despite growing up in Manhattan–or perhaps because of it–I developed an early appreciation for travel, the environment and the outdoors, and write about adventures in the nearly 100 countries I have visited to ski, scuba dive, hike, bike, raft, spa, prowl around ancient and mythical archeological sites, or sit at a sidewalk café. My travel articles appear in Continental Airlines Magazine, UAL Hemispheres, Budget Travel, AAA Car & Travel, New York Post, Luxury Travel Advisor and websites including Yahoo, Suite101.com, Examiner.com, RandMcNally.com and Triporati.com.
My love of NYC’s subway system notwithstanding, I write extensively on automobiles and driving, including for the New York Times, Newsday, AAA Going Places, a syndicated columnist for Motor Matters, as the editor of the online magazine Car and Travel Guide, and Green Car Examiner on Examiner.com. I’ve also been known to pull on a helmet to test drive new models around a racetrack at warp speed.
A product of parents who owned and operated neighborhood retail stores, I champion consumer rights and issues. My articles on negotiating the consumer marketplace appear in magazines including Family Circle and Associated Press newspapers.
I’ve written or contributed to more than one dozen travel guidebooks about New York City, the Hudson Valley, the Caribbean, Canada and skiing. My newest guidebook, 100 Peaceful Places in NYC, was published in Spring 2010. And my first app, NYC Free and Frugal, went live in September 2010.
I’m a member of the Society of American Travel Writers, where I served two terms on the board of the Freelance Council, The Authors Guild, North American Snowsports Journalists Assn., and International Motor Press Assn. I’m a graduate of the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism.
Before switching to print and the web, I was the consumer reporter for WABC-TV “Eyewitness News” and before that for WCBS-AM “Newsradio 88″ in New York City, investigating and reporting on frauds and dangerous products for the local stations and their parent networks, ABC News and CBS Radio.
All that on-air experience makes me an expert speaker. I share those newsroom and on-camera skills as a media interview coach, leading workshops and training seminars for corporations, industry associations, authors, and celebrities normally found on the gossip pages. We writers know how to interview others, but we need to be coached on how to be on the other side of the desk and be the subject of an interview, especially if the interview is live television. Just ask anybody who has wasted their 15 minutes of fame.
I’m a lifelong New Yorker, and raised two children as a single parent when I was widowed, and I am fiercely proud of the wonderful, accomplished adults they have grown up to be. So, I also was a TravelMama, CarMama, FoodMama and EcoMama before that was fashionable.
Please contact me at evelynkanter@gmail.com with suggestions about EcoReport, including which cars and travel destinations you would like to know more about.
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