Jamie Biesiada

Editor, content innovation and retail

Jamie Biesiada is editor, content innovation and retail. She will oversee some of Travel Weekly's flagship editorial projects, including the Travel Industry Survey, host and develop new podcast programming and work on video, social media and AI initiatives. Biesiada will continue as Travel Weekly's retail editor, covering travel advisors and agencies, consortia, host agencies and OTAs. She also is co-host of the Trade Secrets podcast.

She was named the American Society of Travel Advisors' 2019 ASTA Travel Journalist of the Year. Biesiada's roots are in community journalism. Before Travel Weekly, she was most recently the editor of Star News Group based in Manasquan, N.J., covering communities up and down the New Jersey shore. She was named to Editor & Publisher's Top 25 Under 35 list in 2013, which honors the most promising young journalists.