New York Magazine covers, analyzes, comments on, and defines the culture, lifestyle, fashion and personalities that drive New York City. It was founded in April 1968 by the editor Clay Felker and the graphic designer Milton Glaser, and was among the first "lifestyle magazines" meant to appeal to both male and female audiences. Geared for an audience that is generally college-educated working professionals, its readership includes both area residents and visitors interested in keeping in touch with local lifestyles. Created to report on and interpret recent events in the New York metropolitan area, it contains news about the city as well as reporting and criticism about restaurants, the arts and entertainment, shopping and services in New York. The publication is comprised of reader letters, opinions, news, features and interviews. Editorial content is broken down as follows: The Intelligencer section features New York people, places and happenings. It includes three subsections; a quick survey of the city’s most important events is included in It Happened This Week; Party Lines is a photo page; and the Competition, which challenges readers to solve New York-specific problems such as designing a new bridge or remaking an urban health club. The Features section showcases the big stories about people, politics, business, the media, food, fashion, crime, culture, real estate, medical issues, parenting, and quality of life issues. The Strategist section is dedicated to inspiring New Yorkers to live well by providing advice in the following subsections: The Best Bet, Mating, The Look Book, Storefront, Market Research, Food, The Everything Guide, Economy of One, Map, Body, Real Estate and Travel. The Culture Pages section gives the low-down on entertainment with subsections on Movies, Theater, Music, Art, Books and TV. The Agenda section at the back of each issue provides succinct listings for things to do. Subsections include Movies, Broadway & Off-Broadway, Art Museums, Galleries, Photography, Special Events, Music & Dance, Nightlife, Readings, Lectures & Panels, Restaurants, Kids and The Word. The final page is reserved for the Artifact section, highlighting current ideas, trends or interesting information reflecting city life. The magazine's website, nymag.com features several off-shoot digital publications including The Cut, Vulture, and Science of Us.

Founded by Joseph Pulitzer in 1878, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch is a daily four-color broadsheet newspaper that covers regional, national, and international news. The platform of the publication, according to Pulitzer, is that it "will always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties, never belong to any party, always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to the public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing news, always be drastically independent, never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty." The metro-news section offers comprehensive local and regional news serving St. Charles County, Illinois and metro St. Louis. The front page features a digest summarizing the main news of the day. The Explore section focuses on consumer-oriented travel trends and tips. Other topics covered in the publication include music, travel, theater, arts, food, and books. The publication's staff does not accept unsolicited e-mail attachments due to virus dangers. All calendar and event items should be submitted through http://events.stltoday.com/listings. The outlet offers RSS (Really Simple Syndication). Media Alert | October 2, 2008 The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has combined the Health & Fit and Let’s Eat sections and launched a new section: Eat, Drink, Live. This new section is published on Wednesdays. Deputy Managing Editor Christine Bertelson will oversee the section. Christine can be reached on +1 (314) 340 8348 and cbertelson@post-dispatch.com. Also on the staff of the new section are Food Editor Judith Evans who can be reached on +1 (314) 340 8235 and jevans@post-dispatch.com and Features Reporter Cynthia Billhartz, overseeing health, who can be reached on +1 (314) 340 8114 and cbillhartz@post-dispatch.com

Variety is the premier source of entertainment news. Since 1905, the most influential leaders in the industry have turned to Variety for film, tv, music and theater news and analysis.

Discusses arts and entertainment topics. Includes posts on breaking culture news about music, movies, theatre and celebrities. Additionally offers television show recaps. The fundamentals of working with bloggers are the same as with traditional journalists at traditional media outlets: respect their schedules; take time to read their material to learn their interests; and only contact them if/when they want to be contacted. You will also find that if a blogger is a journalist for another outlet(s), Cision tracks their contact preferences there as well.

Founded in 1908, The Christian Science Monitor is recognized as one of the leading U.S. newspapers specializing in international reporting. With a reputation for balanced coverage of complex issues and in-depth analysis of events, the award-winning paper offers both news and features from its 16 bureaus in the U.S. and abroad and from freelance reporters across the globe. The print edition is distributed in the United States and Canada, while MonitorWorld, a weekly print edition, is available by subscription in other countries. Additionally, the Monitor Treeless Edition, a digital replica of the print edition, can be purchased online anywhere in the world. Articles can also be read free of charge on the newspaper's website which averages 4 million unique visitors per month and features exclusive Web reports as well as an archive dating back to 1980. Because the paper's deadline is midday, it is best to try to reach editors in the afternoon. Please send press materials via e-mail. Media Alert: Wednesday 5th November 2008 In April 2009 The Christian Science Monitor will become the first national newspaper to drop its daily print edition and will focus on its online edition. The Monitor succumbed to financial struggles but will still continue to print a weekend edition. The publication, which currently gets about 5 million page-views per month, is known for its in-depth international reporting, particularly on the Middle East. It will refocus all reporting and editorial assets onto the Web.