Smithsonian Journeys EIC Feels Sad for Today's Young Reporters

Victoria Pope acknowledges that career paths like hers are largely a thing of the past.

As editor-in-chief of Smithsonian Journeys, The Smithsonian’s new quarterly print publication tied to the organization’s travel arm, it is Victoria Pope‘s job to highlight single, successive destinations. The debut issue is all about Paris and the next one will focus on the Inkas.

When it comes to globetrotting, Pope has certainly amassed the requisite personal experience. From an item in the Chicago Reader by Michael Milner:

She worked awhile for the daily in Saint Petersburg, Florida, and then on the UPI foreign desk in New York, and then she freelanced in Vienna and found herself covering the rise of Poland’s Solidarity movement in Gdansk.

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