Freelance journalist

Thanks for visiting my site. I am a professional freelance journalist, currently based in Buenos Aires, where I mainly work for Reuters, the Guardian and
Time Out.

My work has been published in the Guardian, the Observer, the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Times Travel Magazine, the Financial Times, The Sydney Morning Herald, The South China Morning Post, TNT, Overseas, Time Out Buenos Aires, Time Out Sao Paulo, Conde Nast Brides - Honeymoon Guide, MIchelin Guides, The Linguist, Matchbox, International Travel and Tourism News, and Siete Leguas (El Mundo, Spain).

I specialise in writing about local life in South America and travel networking, two ideas that I combined in a travel column that was published in the Guardian every Saturday for four months: guardian.co.uk/goinglocal. The aim of the series was to escape the standard gringo trail and meet the locals using travel-networking sites, such as Couchsurfing.com. Since then, I have become a spokesperson for this new mode of travel, speaking at events (TNT Travel Show) and on the radio (BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio Five Live, Radio New Zealand). It also inspired my blog: goinglocaltravel.com.

I have worked as travel editor of Guardian.co.uk and editor of a new Time Out guidebook: Time Out Perfect Places Argentina & Uruguay.  I have also been editor of Overseas magazine (an NGO-produced travel and arts magazine), deputy editor of The Linguist (for the Chartered Insitute of Linguists) and travel editor of Matchbox  (West London's lifestyle magazine).

I have also subedited for a range of publications, with regular shifts on the Daily Telegraph's business desk and on news, travel and politics at Guardian.co.uk.

Follow me on Twitter: @vickybaker.