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Traffic World has been the transportation community's weekly source of industry news since 1907. While it has changed dramatically in recent years, in line with changes in regulation and in the businesses it covers, Traffic World remains the only paid-subscription magazine in the transportation and logistics field. And it's the only weekly that covers the gamut of freight transportation and logistics news. Its mission, as stated in its very first lead editorial:

"To give the most impartial channel for (industry) news to be found anywhere. Our belief is that those who wish a real measure of frankness and independence cannot select a better medium for the things they wish to say."

The bottom line for transportation and logistics decision makers and those on the industry's front lines, is that if you have to wait three weeks to read the story, the news isn't fresh. Fast-breaking developments in all modes of transportation—air, rail, motor, water—are covered in concise, informative articles each week inTrafficWorld. Up-to-date news on regulatory, legislative and court actions, new technology, insightful editorials and illustrative charts and graphics are included in every issue.

	EDITOR IN CHIEF Paul Page editor@trafficworld.com Phone: 202/355-1170
Paul Page has been reporting on transportation since 1991 and was named editor-in-chief of Traffic World on Sept. 23, 2003. He has been editor of Air Cargo World, the monthly sister publication of Traffic World, since 1996. Before that he worked for 10 years as a reporter and editor in the Washington bureau of The Associated Press. He started his career as a White House intern.

	EXECUTIVE EDITOR William B. Cassidy bill_cassidy@trafficworld.com Phone: 202/355-1152
William Cassidy joined Traffic World in 1996 as associate editor for technology. He was named managing editor in April 1998. Cassidy's career in transportation journalism includes a four-year stint as a staff reporter at Transport Topics, a weekly trucking industry newspaper, and seven years at Fleet Owner, a monthly trucking magazine.

	DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR Penny Brown pbrown@trafficworld.com Phone: 202/355-1154
Deputy Managing Editor Penny Brown began her career in daily newspapers in 1998 and joined Traffic World in January 2007. She started as a copy editor at The Times in Shreveport, La., working with news, business, style and sports. She then moved on to USA TODAY, where she was a sports editor focused on the NFL and Major League Baseball. She also worked at the Federal Railroad Administration as a technical editor. She graduated from Bowling Green State University with a B.S. in journalism.

Associate Editors

	RAIL & INTERMODAL John D. Boyd jboyd@trafficworld.com Phone: 202/355-1161
John D. Boyd, a veteran transportation and economics reporter, is our associate editor for rail & intermodal coverage. Boyd is a former reporter with the Journal of Commerce, a sister publication of Traffic World within Commonwealth Business Media. While at JOC, he covered topics that ranged from trade negotiations with other countries and budget fights in Congress to Great Lakes shipping disputes and barging on the inland waterways. He worked before that as an economics reporter for Knight-Ridder Financial News wire service, and again later when that service became Bridge News. Boyd has been a regular contributor on economics and international trade for the World Book encyclopedia yearbook, and recently was managing editor of the Transport Topics weekly newspaper at American Trucking Associations.

	TRUCKING John Gallagher john_gallagher@trafficworld.com Phone: 202/355-1156
John Gallagher, Traffic World's associate editor for trucking, covers all aspects of the motor carrier industry and particularly as it relates to marketing and service. Prior to taking over the trucking beat in 2007 he spent eight years as Traffic World’s rail and intermodal editor. John broke into transportation reporting in 1993 first as the editor of Fieldston Publications' Coal Transportation Report and then as editor of its Rail Business newsletter.

	GOVERNMENT & REGULATIONS Ari Natter anatter@trafficworld.com Phone: 202/355-1145
Ari Natter is our associate editor for government & regulations coverage. Natter comes to Traffic World by way of the Carroll County Times in Westminster, Md. where he reported on police and court activities. Prior to that, he worked at the Cecil Whig newspaper in Elkton, Md. and the Northwest Current in Washington, D.C.

	LOGISTICS William Hoffman whoffman@trafficworld.com Phone: 202/355-1160
William Hoffman has been a business and political reporter for more than 15 years, primarily in Texas, Ohio and Washington, D.C. Hoffman has written about the "Republican Revolution" in the 104th Congress, the continuing controversy over nuclear waste storage at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, and won state and regional journalism awards for his coverage of electric utility deregulation, the prospect of deflation in the U.S. economy and the political influence of multinational power utility TXU in Texas. He lives in northern Virginia.

	PEOPLE WATCH/CALENDAR India Jackson ijackson@trafficworld.com Phone: 202/355-1142
India Jackson joined The Journal of Commerce in 1974. She currently serves as office manager and telecommunications manager for Traffic World, Air Cargo World and the Washington, D.C., bureau of The Journal of Commerce. Jackson has edited the People Watch and Calendar sections of Traffic World since 1998, and she is the secretary/treasurer of the Transportation Table, a biweekly transportation forum, which has been sponsored by Traffic World and The Journal of Commerce since 1981.

	WEB EDITOR Thomas L. Gallagher tgallagher@trafficworld.com Phone: 202/355-1158
Tom Gallagher joined the Traffic World staff in December 1999. Prior to his arrival at TrafficWorld he was a web designer at Bet Mishpachah synagogue, where he was involved in the latest website redesign. From 1997 until 1999, Gallagher headed web related operations at ELS Language Centers in Washington, DC, where he taught teachers as well as students how to use the internet to facilitate education. He has a BA in Philosophy and Logic from the University of Maryland. Gallagher also has previous experience in logistics as a wholesale florist with Claymore Sieck, Inc.