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Jeremy Ferguson

Jeremy Ferguson 
... is an award-winning travel writer and photgrapher who has travelled through 150 countries, from Australia to Argentina, Italy to India, the Middle East to Myanmar. Travel and food assignments have led him into the pages of the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star and dozens of magazines including Destinations, City & Country Home, EnRoute, Canadian, Financial Post and Travel & Leisure .  He is a three-time winner of the ANTOR Award for Excellence in Travel Writing.

The Lifestyle & Reportages Team   

Constance Droganes   Jeremy Josephs    Leslie C. Smith    Michael Sedge

Roger Franklin    Jacqueline de Gier (IFA)    John Oliphant

Constance Droganes
An award-winning editor and writer, Constance Droganes has made versatility and cutting-edge ideas the cornerstone of her broad journalistic career. Entertainment profiles provide the foundation to her multi-faceted portfolio, which includes interviews with some of the biggest international celebrities such as John Secada, Andy Garcia, Kenneth Branagh, Robert Palmer, Giancarlo Giannini, Carmen Maura, Sofia Loren, Eric Roberts, Sofia Coppola, and many more. Having covered the Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter New York Fashion Collections, Droganes has reported on fashion, health & fitness, beauty, decor, and style trends making news around the world. Her feature assignments have had an international scope, taking her to Italy and Hungary, where she uncovered some of the world's best spas, to Miami--the latest international style capital, to Spain, where she combined fashion shooting with travel reporting. Droganes has worked as a Senior Editor at Flare Magazine, Associate Editor on Images Magazine, and Editor on Healthwatch Magazine. She has contributed internationally to such magazines as Company, one of the UK's most widely read women's publications, OUT Magazine (New York), Ocean Drive, and MODE Magazine (NY).

Jeremy Josephs
...trained as a lawyer and worked for some years as political assistant to the former leader of the Liberal Party, He went on to write several books including: Swastika Over Paris, Dr. Jack - Calcutta's Pavement Doctor, Hungerford: One Man's Massacre, Murder In The Family, A Chateau In The Dordogne, and Rosa's Child - most of which have been translated into several languages. Jeremy also writes articles on diverse subjects for in-flight magazines (British Airways, British Midland, etc) in the UK and elsewhere. He specialises in providing photo-essays on subjects which include food, wine, luxury products, business and travel. Jeremy resides in Montpellier in the south of France together with his wife and two children.

Leslie C. Smith
... is a freelance writer who specializes in the not altogether unrelated fields of humour and fashion. Leslie is one of only a handful of fashion journalists in North America who specialize in men's wear. Her award-winning work has appeared in every major Canadian newspaper and one American, including The Globe and Mail, Ottawa Citizen, Edmonton Journal, Vancouver-Sun Province, The Financial Post and Staten Island Advance. Her magazine credits include several national and international publications, among them: en Route, Forum, Holt Renfrew's Point of View, MR Magazine, Fashion & Design Magazine, FAB National, Canadian Retailer and TV Guide. She makes frequent appearances on network TV as a fashion and popular culture observer (Global, CBC, CTV, TVO and once ont the NBC Nightly News). Over the past five years, New York's "The Fashion Association has presented Ms. Smith with four Aldo Award statuettes for excellence in men's fashion reporting.

Michael Sedge
For the past 24 years, American writer Michael Sedge has contributed to The Associated Press, Newsweek, and Time-Life, Armed Forces Journal International, Cardiology World News, and World Travel International from Italy. Sedge has published more than 2,500 articles, several books, audio tape scripts, and children's plays. His recent novel, Death Watch, co-authored with Joel Jacobs, is currently being considered by four major motion picture companies. Author of Selling Books to the Military Market (Para Publishing), The Adventure Guide to Italy (Hunter), How to Double Your Income through Foreign & Reprint Sales (S.Media), and Commercialization of the Oceans (F.Watts), he's been dubbed the "Wizard of Marketing" by Entrepreneur Magazine. Because of his marketing skill and knowledge of the US military, Mr. Sedge was recruited by MCI Communications to establish and direct their European military marketing for six years. As regional president in Italy for the International Food, Wine &Travel Writers Association, he covers European travel topic on a regular bases. Other areas of expertise include: expatriate affairs, US and NATO military, the London theater beat, the business of freelance writing, and, as Sedge puts it, "anything Italian."

Roger Franklin
.is a New York-based correspondent and a veteran international journalist who has written for Time, Fortune and The New York Post, and writes for papers and magazines throughout Asia and Europe. Australian-born Franklin, has chased interviews and features from Alaska to Argentina in his two decades of reporting from the Americas. The author of "The Defender," an acclaimed book on the culture of fraud, waste and contract abuse which continues to plague the Pentagon's procurement process, he specializes in looking behind the headlines for the angles and personalities that explain an often strange land to the wider world beyond America's shores. Equally at home profiling stars and scientists, moguls and mavericks, he is currently working on another book that will examine the often tragic consequences of America's costly and counterproductive war on illegal drugs.

Jacqueline de Gier (IFA)
.is a reporter who has focussed on Turkey over the last two years, where she started looking into wide spread corruption for The Christian Science Monitor. Her work has been published world wide, including in the Sunday Times, New Society. She is a regular contributor to Elsevier in the Netherlands and the author of two books, Ali & Wailers, and Hoping for Battle, which describes what is happening now in the old empire of Alexander the Great. Jacqueline had lunch with famous Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Apo Ocalan before his arrest, and wrote an extensive feature about the man and his followers. Jacqueline is currently working on a book on the Kurds.

John Oliphant
... is a freelance journalist living in Vancouver, B.C., and is the author of the highly acclaimed biography Brother Twelve: The Incredible Story of Canada's False Prophet. He is currently writing a science-fiction script for television. He is a partner in Lightspeed Productions, a documentary film company, and is completing a fiction collection entitled Crystal Remains. Mr. Oliphant has had a long-time interest in the UFO phenomenon, and is presently researching a film about alien abduction.

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Sean Plummer   Bryan Reesman

Sean Plummer
... loves writing about music as much as listening to it. Currently editor of Access magazine and contributor to Chart and Wal-Mart's Profile, Plummer has investigated the workings of the Canadian independent record industry, and interviewed rock stars (Lenny Kravitz, Urge Overkill), pop sensations (the Cranberries, Blur), and punk legends (the Ramones, DOA). In pursuit of better relations between the sexes, Plummer has shared his extensive knowledge of common-law relationships (and his wife) with the readers of Venue and Flare Magazine. His thoughts on media and culture have appeared in print in The Toronto Star and on CBC Radio's infotainment program Brand X. Details magazine recently published Sean's essay on his mother's suicide in its September 1996 issue. When not checking out hot new Canadian bands in smoky nighclubs, Plummer can be found catching up on the novels of Milan Kundera or the films of Hong Kong directors Ringo Lam and Tsui Hark.

Bryan Reesman
A prolific entertainment journalist living in the United States, BRYAN REESMAN is also a graduate of NYU film school, a former story analyst for Miramax Films, New Line Cinema, and Imagine Entertainment, and former director of development for Monument Pictures. He has been published in over 40 print magazines and a dozen Web-based publications over the last 7 years, including Billboard, FHM, the National Post, Playboy.com, Metal Edge, MTV Online, the Boston Phoenix, Bikini, and Detour.

Bryan is known for his in-depth interviews. Whether he's conversing with ethereal diva Sarah Brightman, maverick composer Philip Glass, comic book auteur Alan Moore, or rock legends AC/DC, he finds refreshing angles to take with his subjects. He has test-driven a Corvette with former Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford, explored the Erotica '99 convention with model Laurie Wallace, and traveled all over Germany to learn why heavy metal will never die in Deutschland.

Well-respected and well-connected, Bryan has built up a truly diverse portfolio that proves he can cross over from pop to rock to world music without batting an eyelash. Because of the extensive pre-interview research that he prides himself on, his features always yield something new and interesting.

Bryan contributes regularly to Amazon.com, Billboard, Gig, Goldmine, Keyboard, Launch, Mix, New Age Voice, Request, Tattoo Savage, and Transworld Stance.

The Celeb/People Team

David Giammarco   Ted Frymark (IFA)

David Giammarco
Not only has David Giammarco traveled the globe as a best-selling author and syndicated reporter, he's also been in front of the cameras and behind them, as an actor, director and writer.

His work has appeared in Cigar Aficionado, Razor, Max, Elle, People, InTouch, Cinefantastique, and Hello Magazine, as well as The Hollywood Reporter, The Sydney Times, The London Times, The Miami Herald and Canada's national newspaper, The Globe & Mail.

He's known particularly for his superb research skills and a sense of humor that lends special depth to his interviews with superstars such as Angelina Jolie, Tom Cruise, Al Pacino, Jamie Foxx, Sean Connery, The Rolling Stones, Clint Eastwood, George Clooney, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Vin Diesel, Brad Pitt, Will Smith and Pamela Anderson.

This year, millions of viewers saw Giammarco host the live red-carpet coverage of the 77th Academy Awards and now catch him regularly on Canada's etalk Daily where he's Senior Entertainment Reporter. Recently he accompanied Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg on an exclusive 'round-the-world' tour for "The War of the Worlds", earning Cruise's accolades for his unique coverage. And next year, Giammarco's best-selling book For Your Eyes Only: Behind the Scenes of the James Bond Films, is slated to go into production as a four-hour mini series.

He's ridden the open range with Kevin Costner, test-driven the new Aston Martin with Pierce Brosnan and hit the road with rock n' roll legends like Fleetwood Mac and The Eagles - it's this kind of unequalled access that gives Giammarco the edge in delivering riveting close-ups of the A-list.

Ted Frymark (IFA)
.has been an entertainment journalist for more than 15 years, during which time he has interviewed hundreds of stars from the worlds of music and movies, including artists as diverse as Tarantino and Hanson! He has contributed to diverse magazines around the world such as Playboy in Russia, Crossbeat in Japan and Nieuwe Revue in The Netherlands. His work also appeares in respected national newspapers such as Folha De Sao Paulo in Brazil, Dagbladet in Norway and Publico in Portugal.