All News Coverage of AFAR

Afar's co-founder Joe Diaz appeared on Martha Stewart's "Travel Show" to discuss the March/April issue of the magazine. Martha's favorite department? Mix, a wonderful visual hit of the world's similarities and differences. The theme this issue is housing across the globe. Watch the segment here!

For its "Spin the Globe" column, Afar sends its writers, even the famous ones, to far off places at random and tells them to chronicle their experiences...Read more

The 47-year-old "Pretty in Pink" and "Lipstick Jungle" star said the incident happened while he was researching an article for the travel magazine Afar, People.com reported...Read more

Andrew McCarthy had a harrowing experience while on assignment for the travel magazine Afar recently, as he was escorted at gunpoint out of a historic underground church for intruding without documentation...Read more

While on assignment in Ethiopia for a travel magazine, Lipstick Jungle actor Andrew McCarthy ended up being marched out of a church at gunpoint...Read more

U.S. actor Andrew McCarthy says he was escorted by a guard at gunpoint out of Ethiopia's Lalibela church after leaving his admission ticket at his hotel...Read more

Times sure have changed for '80s heartthrob Andrew McCarthy. While penning a piece for travel magazine AFAR, the actor was detained at gunpoint after entering an Ethiopian church without proper documentation...Read more

Actor Andrew McCarthy was left fearing for his life during a recent trip to Ethiopia after he was held at gunpoint in an underground church. The Mannequin star turned reporter for travel magazine Afar...Read more

Actor ANDREW MCCARTHY was left fearing for his life during a recent trip to Ethiopia after he was held at gunpoint in an underground church. The Mannequin star turned reporter for travel magazine Afar...Read more

Actor Andrew McCarthy was left fearing for his life during a recent trip to Ethiopia after he was held at gunpoint in an underground church. The Mannequin star turned reporter for travel magazine Afar...Read more 

Andrew McCarthy had a harrowing experience while on assignment for the travel magazine Afar recently, as he was escorted at gunpoint...Read more

Actor Andrew McCarthy had a harrowing experience while on assignment for the travel magazine Afar recently...Read more

Business colleagues, with whom I recently worked, evolved the four-letter name of a new travel magazine -- AFAR. As much as I like the all-caps title, I also like the magazine, which is two-issues-old...Read more

Joe Diaz and co-founder Greg Sullivan have recently launched AFAR Media, a company dedicated to experiential travel.  AFAR has set out to promote and expose experiential travel to audiences who want to explore beyond the normal tourist stops to understand a culture through the eyes of its people...Read more

Afar Magazine recently published its second issue and I've become a huge fan. It's a magazine that stands out in bookstores overflowing with travel publications dealing with all kinds of remote corners of the world. It's hip and current but not in a snobbish "we know more than you" kind of way, and it makes a 50-something travel editor feel 30 again...Read more.

Irish America’s Annual The Business 100 is a celebration of Irish-American corporate success, and this year is no exception. The executives profiled here represent some of the most powerful corporations in the world...Read more.

While 2009 may be remembered more for the number (and quality) of magazines that closed, it was also an active year for launches, with 752 new titles debuting between September 2008 and September 2009, according to Samir “Mr. Magazine” Husni, director of the Magazine Innovation Center at the University of Mississippi...Read more

Traveling home from a conference in Québec last week, I picked up a copy of the premier edition of Afar, the newest travel magazine to grace an already crowded category on airport newsstands. An hour later after a thoroughly absorbing in-flight read, I can report that I was impressed...Read more

In August, a new publication hit the racks, and it's an adventure of a read. Unlike other glossies that rank hotels by thread counts and compare brown sugar scrubs at exotic spas, Afar goes deep inside a destination, rummaging around as an insider...Read more.

A new magazine just came out, called AFAR. They refer to experiential travel as the new kind of travel...It's less about checking the box or escaping from reality and more about the extension of how one lives...Read more

Reaching an audience of over 20 million, AFAR has ignited a media sensation..

Through Afar, which will be published six times a year, he plans to create a voice for people interested in experiential travel -- travelling to connect with the essence of a place and its people...Read more

This month, a new publication hit the racks. Unlike other glossies that rank hotels by thread counts and compare brown sugar scrubs at exotic spas, Afar goes deep inside a destination, rummaging around as an insider, not a face staring out a tour bus window...Read more

The act of going beneath the surface of a destination and beyond your comfort zone to experience the essence of a place. See: Afar magazine...Read more

We've recently found the coolest site - that explores experiential travel. AFAR:  Where Travel Can Take You, explores experiential travel in a variety of ways - through a website, a new (and gorgeous) print magazine, and more. Read more...

Launching a new magazine in this economy, a travel mag no less, would seem like risky business. But don't tell that ot intrepid world travelers Greg Sullivan and Joe Diaz, co-founders of Afar...Read more

Last week, a new publication hits the racks, and it's an adventure of a read...Read more
 

Underscoring its message of travel as a culturally educational experience, Afar magazine hosted a launch party filled with sponsors that brought in a diverse array of foreign food, music, and entertainment...Read more

On Tuesday night in downtown Manhattan, AdAge spotted a rare sight: a party for a brand spanking new magazine. Afar, a travel magazine for people who actually go places, held a big-deal event to announce that print not only was undead, it was still serving as a platform for new-media adventures...Read more

AFAR magazine has launched this month with a focus on experiential travel rather than the standard escapism travel writing that seems to plague much of travel magazines these days...Read more

Any magazine launch party is notable these days, but this one was particularly notable because of the venue: the home of Karen Lashinsky, a converted sausage factory on Hudson Street filled with curious artifacts from her own world travels...Read more

The magazine, which is based out of San Francisco, emphasizes what it calls “experiential travel,” as opposed to consumerist travel...Read more

The first issue of a new print travel magazine called Afar landed in my mailbox yesterday. Travel writer friends have been talking about it for some time—largely marveling at the fact that anyone would launch a print travel magazine in these times...Read more

Not everyone is losing faith in print, and this coming August 18, one such believer in print, Greg Sullivan, is launching the premier issue of Afar, the first magazine devoted exclusively to covering experiential travel. The premier issue will carry 35 ad pages and a cover price of $4.99...Read more

Entrepreneur-turned-publisher Greg Sullivan thinks that his forthcoming travel magazine Afar can carve out a niche by devoting itself to the experiential traveler. Sullivan, who’s bankrolling Afar with $10 million of his own money, is pitching a nonformulaic approach to sight-seeing under the editorship of Susan West (Smithsonian, Health).

Today, Sullivan and Diaz hired media sales veterans Chris Cuomo and Cha Mueller to head up AFAR's ad sales team... Read more

Afar Media announced this week that it has named Laura Simkins audience marketing and planning director of Afar, a new experiential travel magazine launching in September 2009... Read more

Laura Simkins joined AFAR Media as audience marketing and planning director for AFAR magazine, which will launch in September... Read more

John Sheehy became president and publisher of Afar, an experiential travel magazine launching in September 2009. Mr. Sheehy, former chief operating officer of Weider Publishing and former director at Time Inc. Ventures,has run a consulting firm for the past five years that specializes in new-magazine and online development. He formerly served as president of both Utne Reader and American Hospital Publishing, and began his career as the founding general manager of Hippocrates, now Health magazine.

Afar, a new travel magazine and Web site devoted entirely to experiential travel, is launching with an assist from Dwell, the award-winning design and shelter title led by Michela O’Connor Abrams… Read more