Joseph Rosendo, PBS Travel Journalist

About this episode

PBS Travel Journalist Joseph Rosendo discusses his experiences traveling to 104 countries and his work on PBS shows.

PBS Travel Journalist Joseph Rosendo talks about visiting 104 countries around the world, his upcoming shooting schedule around the Thousand Islands, his popular PBS shows Joseph Rosendo’s Steppin’ Out and Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope, his 21 episodes focused on Canada, why he respects the business model of his PBS stablemate and fellow travel expert Rick Steves, why he ends every episode with a Mark Twain quote, and how he manages to condense 100 hours of footage into each 26 minute and 46 second episode with a crew of only four people! For everything Joseph Rosendo, please visit both https://travelscope.net/ and https://josephrosendo.com/ TORONTO LEGENDS is hosted by Andrew Applebaum at andrew.applebaum@gmail.com All episodes available at https://www.torontolegends.ca/episodes/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Andrew Applebaum

Guest: Joseph Rosendo

Topics covered

• travel journalism
• PBS shows
• Canada
• Mark Twain
• video production
• international travel

Keywords

• Joseph Rosendo
• PBS Travel Journalist
• Thousand Islands
• Rick Steves
• Mark Twain
• travel shows
• Canada
• video editing

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: PBS, Joseph Rosendo’s Steppin’ Out, Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope

Places: Thousand Islands, Canada

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