Checking In

October 18, 2011

Tyler Davidson

We’re happy to announce a major addition to the staff of Meetings Focus, with the hiring of Rayna Katz as our new Content Director, Features and News.

Those of you who have been in the business for awhile may recognize her name from one of the other great trade magazines serving the meetings industry, MeetingNews, where she served in a variety of editorial positions for some 13 years.

Rayna, who is based in New York City, will handle the news effort and features sections in all of our publications, as well as spearhead the daily news effort at www.meetingstoday.com.

And while Rayna is aboard, we’re sad to see Maria Lenhart depart, but we all hope to see some of her fantastic writing appear in our pages again very soon and wish her the best of luck.

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About the author

Tyler Davidson is the vice president and chief content director for Meetings Today, which publishes the meetings industry trade magazine Meetings Today as well as MeetingsToday.com, various newsletters, webinars, the in-person Meetings Today LIVE! Hosted-buyer events and other meetings and events industry B2B channels.

Tyler has covered the travel trade for nearly 35 years. In his role with Meetings Today, which recently won the prestigious FOLIO: Eddies Award for best magazine issue, Tyler leads the editorial team on its mission to provide the most in-depth meetings content in the industry. Previously, he worked as the Asia, Canada, Pacific Northwest and Western U.S. editor at Travel Weekly magazine and TravelAge West. Before joining the dual editorial staff producing destination sections for Travel Weekly and TravelAge West, Tyler was the Africa, Israel, Middle East, Switzerland and Pacific Northwest editor at TravelAge West. He also undertook general news and feature assignments while working at the magazines.

Besides reporting on the travel trade, Tyler has covered the real estate industry, held various editorial positions at the San Francisco-based national satire magazine The Nose, wrote freelance technology industry pieces and covered the San Francisco 49ers and Oakland Raiders for a bilingual newspaper in San Francisco. He has a B.A. in Journalism from San Francisco State University, where he worked in various editorial capacities on its award-winning student magazine, Prism.

Contact: tyler.davidson@meetingstoday.com