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Feature editors looking ahead to 2009 can use AP Lifestyles' editorial calendar as a guide to the themes AP reporters will address throughout the year. Most Lifestyles content will be part of the AP Complete text package, although the most timely coverage of fashion, food, homes and travel will appear in the AP Breaking News core text service.

The Lifestyles calendar for 2009:

  • Feb. 2 – Valentine’s Day (Feb. 14)
  • Feb. 9 – Lent
  • March 2 – St. Patrick’s Day (March 17)
  • March 9 – Get Ready for Spring
  • March 16 – Spring Fashion
  • March 23 – Easter (April 12), Passover (April 9)
  • April 27 – Mother’s Day (May 10)
  • May 4 – Get Ready for Summer
  • May 25 – Hit the Beach
  • June 1 – Weddings
  • June 8 – Father’s Day (June 21)
  • June 15 – Camps and Camping
  • June 22 – July Fourth
  • July 13 – Back to School
  • July 20 – Back to School
  • Aug. 10 – Ramadan (Aug. 21)
  • Aug. 17 – Fall Fashion
  • Aug. 24 – Labor Day (Sept. 7)
  • Sept. 7 – Rosh Hashanah (Sept. 19)
  • Oct. 12 – Halloween (Oct. 31)
  • Oct. 19 – Halloween (Oct. 31)
  • Nov. 9 – Thanksgiving (Nov. 26)
  • Nov. 16 – Thanksgiving (Nov. 26)
  • Nov. 23 – Early Holidays
  • Nov. 30 – Holidays, Hanukah (Dec. 11)
  • Dec. 7 – Holiday Gift Giving
  • Dec. 14 – Last-Minute Holidays/New Year’s Eve
  • Dec. 21 – The Year Ahead

Lifestyles has undergone an aggressive expansion and improved the content to include timelier, news-based stories that explores the lives your audience leads: what they’re eating, wearing and talking about with a broad range of daily features and news-you-can-use. To compliment this, AP Lifestyles Online includes multimedia, videos and more photos with the topics that your readers care about most:

Lifestyles Online

AP Lifestyles Online includes world-class photography from the AP, more than 50 stories per week across all topics; ‘coping’ coverage (day-two impact of a breaking news event); additional monthly ‘special edition’ series of 5-10 topical stories (such as weddings or cars); video (three per week); interactive multi-media (two per week) and more photos (2-10 with every feature story).

A connection can be created between print and online using text to refer to more video and interactive online content appealing to advertisers and sponsors with specifically targeted content. You Lifestyles has undergone an aggressive expansion and improved the content to include timelier, news-based stories that explores the lives your audience leads: what they’re eating, wearing and talking about with a broad range of daily features and news-you-can-use. To compliment this, AP Lifestyles Online includes multimedia, videos and more photos with the topics that your readers care about most:

 

 

AP Lifestyles Online includes world-class photography from the AP, more than 50 stories per week across all topics; ‘coping’ coverage (day-two impact of a breaking news event); additional monthly ‘special edition’ series of 5-10 topical stories (such as weddings or cars); video (three per week); interactive multi-media (two per week) and more photos (2-10 with every feature story).

A connection can be created between print and online using text to refer to more video and interactive online content appealing to advertisers and sponsors with specifically targeted content. You can click below for a product information sheet on Lifestyles Online.

Lifestyles Online Info Sheet

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