Themed Content Packages
5 Star Travel Package
Traveling has never been easy, but never before has it been so exasperating. The Five-star Travel Package takes the hassle out of the hustle with advice from top travel writers who know how to travel smart and well. Rick Steves, Christopher Elliott, Eileen Ogintz and Jae-Ha Kim offer the latest on travel industry trends, advice on the best places to travel with children, even where to go to rub elbows with your favorite celebrity. Include our World’s Fare travel component, a five-story package highlighting the hottest destinations, culture and food from around the world, and you’ve got everything you’ll need to inform your reader and enhance your print and online travel coverage.
Available: International, U.S. & Canada
Foodstyles Feature Package
FoodStyles is a weekly package consisting of six food stories with six or more front-page-quality pieces of color art. The material from one week’s package makes a handsome food section in and of itself. In fact, some editors create their food sections from FoodStyles stories and art. Emphasis is on trends, speedy weeknight cooking and entertaining by leading experts in the culinary world. The text is transmitted on Mondays, three weeks before the release date, over AP and on the TMS content delivery Web sites. The art is posted online with the text. There is a three-week lead time to allow food editors time to plan their sections.
Available: International, U.S. & Canada
Healthy Living Package
Help readers stay informed on health and fitness with this lively collection of features, briefs, Q&As, photos and graphics. Pick and choose content from the Premium Health News Service (weekly), Mayo Clinic Medical Edge (two Q&As per week), The Medicine Cabinet: Ask the Harvard Experts (one Q&A per week), and the Harvard Health Letters (five letters per month).
Available: International, U.S. & Canada
Personal Finance Package
In the Personal Finance Package, you'll find a wealth of advice on being a smart consumer, saving money, building an investment portfolio, advancing your career, planning for retirement, paying for college and raising money-savvy kids. Included with this package is Kiplinger's "Money Power" feature with five short 350- to 450-word stories each week on investing, retirement, family finances and smart spending. Other regular TMS columns include: Interpersonal Edge by Daneen Skube and Careers Now by Joyce Lain Kennedy, on workplace issues; the Savings Game by Humberto Cruz; Retire Smart by Mark Miller; Kids and Money by Steve Rosen; Successful Investing by Andrew Leckey, and the long-popular personal finance column by the Los Angeles Times' Kathy Kristof.
Available: International, U.S. & Canada
QuickPublish
QuickPublish is a great way for small dailies, weeklies and monthlies to increase ad revenue, reduce freelance writing costs and free up staff to work on local projects. This package is a great value, with more than 40 top-notch features including, Crispy Gamer video game reviews, the Sudoku puzzle, crosswords, editorial cartoons by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Don Wright, Variety entertainment content and QP Voices, which includes, in weekly rotation, political and lifestyle columns by Garrison Keillor, Cal Thomas, Mary Sanchez and Mark Bazer. In addition, the package offers graphics from MCT, comic favorites, Animal Crackers and Broom-Hilda, as well as its regular column lineup: My Answer, Robert Koehler, History of the World, Auto Scene, Omarr's Weekly Astrological Forecast, My Pet World, Soaps, and Rick Steves' Europe.
Available: International, U.S. & Canada
Licensing and Reprints
TMS Licensing: We license popular cartoon characters, puzzles and content from renowned creators for print, interactive, TV and film, mobile and board games. TMS also licenses unique commentary in politics, travel, health, business and other categories.
TMS reprints: We grant websites, newsletters, books and other publications permission to reprint any of the 150-plus columns, cartoons, magazine articles, photos and graphics found in our catalog. This content also can be used in corporate communications and training materials.