Cindy Richards

About

Cindy Richards is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist who does it all with integrity, devotion to accuracy, respect for deadlines and a sense of humor. She is comfortable managing multiple people and multiple deadlines. She is a style and grammar geek who believes it’s possible to write with both brevity and beauty. And she is a media trainer who can make even the least likely spokesperson shine in front of the cameras.Richards is a veteran Chicago journalist, with experience as a reporter, columnist and editor in both traditional media and new media. She is the go-to expert guest for CBS Radio's Travel Tuesday segment.She is a freelance travel writer as well as editor and co-owner of SheBuysTravel.com, a website aimed at women who love to travel -- solo, with girlfriends, with romantic partners and with their family. That content is widely syndicated via newspapers, online outlets and a location-driven app.Previously, she was a full-time writer, editor and columnist who has been on staff at both the Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Tribune, run international editorial projects for TripAdvisor, written for national magazines, websites and private clients, and taught in the prestigious graduate journalism program at Northwestern University.