ABOUT US
CARDOZO: Worked eight years for major
metropolitan newspapers; has done freelance
travel and outdoors articles and photography
since 1974.
HIRSCH: Worked at a variety of research
and writing jobs in government and private
industry and has been doing freelance articles
since 1982.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Society of American Travel Writers, Travel
Journalists' Guild, North
American Snowsports Journalists Assn., NW
Outdoor Writers' Assn.
AWARDS
Lowell Thomas awards: 1st (foreign magazine
story) 1988, 1st (adventure travel) 1995,
2nd (ecotourism) 1995, 1st (self illustrated)
1996, 3rd (cultural tourism) 1996, 3rd (adventure
travel) 1997; 25+ awards in SATW photo and
writing contests; various NOWA newspaper
and magazine awards 1988 - 2003, Canada's
Northern Lights awards 1998 - 2003; several
awards from Society of Professional Journalists.
PUBLISHED IN:
MAGAZINES: Up Here, Sport Diver, Group
Travel Leader, Doctors Review, Physicians
Money Digest, Diver (UK), Studio Classroom
(Taiwan), Cathay Pacific Discovery and Dragonair's
Silk Road (Hong Kong), Hemispheres and The
Peak (Singapore).
NEWSPAPERS: New York Post, Chicago
Tribune, Daily Herald, Portland Oregonian,
Spokane Spokesman Review, Puget Sound Business
Journal, Kansas City Star, Dallas Morning
News, St. Petersburg Times, Canwest newspapers.
Travel assignments have included: Sea
kayaking in Irian Jaya; snorkeling with beluga
whales in northern Canada; Cruising the Bering
Sea to the Russian Far East; scuba diving
in Antarctica; skiing in North and South
America, Europe and India; scuba diving in
Florida, the Pacific Northwest, the Caribbean,
the South Pacific and the Canadian far north;
bicycling in Tahiti; island hopping in Greece;
dogsled camping in Alaska; camping among
Polar Bears in Canada; thrill sports in New
Zealand; baby seals off Canada; traveling
Inner Mongolia; snowmobiling in Labrador;
living with Eskimos in igloos in the Canadian
arctic plus many other far north stories
in summer and winter.
Our series of stories on Alaska has been
printed by more than two dozen publications.
Various trips to China have appeared
in 20 publications. Our article on
Antarctic Tourism was chosen by Grolier Inc.
to appear in its Yearbook of Science. Other
Antarctic stories have appeared 15 times.
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