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The Best Lines From Outside Magazine's Very Long Profile of Lonely Planet's Boss

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Jason Clampet

Photo Credit: A portion of a page from the profile of Lonely Planet boss Daniel Houghton in Outside magazine.  Outside Magazine

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Lonely Planet has spent nearly a year in transition from the beat-up BBC to the upstarts from Tennessee. While this feature doesn't provide many clues to its current performance, it does demonstrate that the boss is having more fun than most.

The April issue of Outside magazine devotes over a dozen pages to a profile of Lonely Planet boss Daniel Houghton. It has been nearly a year since Brad Kelley, a billionaire and one of the U.S.'s largest landowners, bought the travel publisher from BBC Worldwide in a deal that was considered a steal for Kelley and a failure for the broadcaster's for-profit investment arm. Since the purchase, the day-to-day running of Lonely Planet has been in the hands of Daniel Houghton, a 25-year-old multimedia journalist. Houghton oversaw some radical staffing cuts, a shift of techni

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