Thanks much for your interest. this is True is available to print publications as a weekly feature, and currently runs in print in multiple states and countries.

True is a weekly feature which briefly retells weird news stories from "legitimate" news publications -- never from "tabloids". Each story starts with an appropriate "slug" (head) and ends with an opinionated, ironic, and/or funny tagline.

All stories have slugs and tags. At the end of each column there is a "headline of the week" which has a slug, but no tag. The source for each item is credited. True's modular format makes it very easy for you to customize the length to fit your news hole or editorial requirements. A full column includes 7-9 stories, totaling about 900 words. About half the stories are located in the U.S., half outside.

Individuals can get a free subscription to an abbreviated version on the Internet. True has one of the largest readerships of any subscription Internet feature -- a six-figure circulation to more than 200 countries. We consider this wide and deep distribution quite a good indicator of True's universal appeal.

Does True's online subscription operation compete with newspapers? No! It creates a market for you. People who subscribe for free online get only half the stories each week. The client newspaper feed has all the stories, so if readers really like the stories, they'll come to you to see more. We do have a paid online subscription option for all stories by e-mail, but it is (unfortunately for us!) such a small percentage of our huge online audience that the numbers are meaningless, especially when you consider that small group is spread over more than 40 countries.

True's syndication fee is quite reasonable: it starts at US$20 per month, depending on your circulation. Please use the form below to ask for a free quote.

(More information of possible interest to print editors and publishers on this web site includes: the list of countries True goes to each week online so you can judge for yourself the feature's "universal" appeal, some of the many comments from readers the feature has generated in our more than seven years online, and brief quotes from your peers about what they think of our operation.)

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