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. This package provides everything you need to inform your reader and enhance your print and online travel coverage.

Available: International, U.S. & Canada

Entrée Feature Package

This exciting new weekly package is food journalism attuned to emerging trends, the latest professional techniques and responsible family nutrition. It recognizes that even average cooks and diners are becoming more sophisticated while also seeking simplicity, health, freshness and ease of preparation.
 
Each package includes six stories and six or more high-quality color photos. Holiday and other time-sensitive stories move at least three weeks in advance.
 
The Entrée contributors:

Mario Batali (mariobatali.com), the critically acclaimed chef, restaurateur, award-winning author and television personality, will write two columns every month over the course of the 2012 calendar year. The columns will run 650-700 words and be inspired by his cookbook, “Molto Batali: Simple Family Dinners from My Home to Yours” (Ecco, 2011).
 
The Kitchn (thekitchn.com) is the dynamic culinary subsidiary of the popular and path-breaking homes-and-interiors website ApartmentTherapy.com.
 
One for the Table (oneforthetable.com) is a witty, stylish online magazine edited by writer and film producer Amy Ephron, whose contributors include A-List Hollywood talents.  
 
Seriously Simple (seriouslysimple.com), by best-selling author Diane Rossen Worthington, tells readers how to cook with panache without spending a lot of time in the kitchen. Her new book, “Seriously Simple Parties,” offers tips, recipes and menus for effortless entertaining.

EatingWell (eatingwell.com) is an award-winning magazine and website that delivers the information and inspiration people need to make healthy eating a way of life.
 
Environmental Nutrition (environmentalnutrition.com), produced by nutritional experts, is a rare authority amid the welter of conflicting reports on hot food topics. This is a “newsletter that gets things right,” said the New York Times.

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 Elliot Raphaelson and Anya Kamenetz ; Retire Smart by Mark Miller; Kids and Money by Steve Rosen; and Successful Investing by Andrew Leckey.

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, Variety entertainment content and QP Voices, which includes, in weekly rotation, political and lifestyle columns by Cal Thomas, Mary Sanchez, Mark Bazer and Greg Schwem. 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